Re: the purpose of "workstation core applications" testcase

[Kamil Paral]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:12 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 12:48 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote:
>  > Hi Adam,
>  >
>  > I and Lukas are in the process of drafting an email to Desktop SIGs
>  > regarding basic functionality criteria for all apps available on blocking
>  > desktops (as discussed recently in the QA meeting), and I need to clarify
>  > the purpose of the "workstation core applications" testcase [1]. You
>  > created it, I hope you have the best insight here :)
>  >
>  > What confuses me:
>  > 1. I'm not clear on the purpose of this test case. The initial comment in
>  > history says "create test case to check Workstation core application
>  > availability", so it seems just about the apps being present. But the
>  > Expected results also talk about successful launch.
>  > If this is solely about availability, I'd rather omit the "successful
>  > launch" note, because that is already covered by basic functionality test
>  > case, let's not mix them up.
>  > 2. The test case is marked with Beta milestone, but I can't find any
>  > release criterion that would refer to Workstation Core apps, not even at
>  > Final, let alone at Beta. I can't even find the Technical Specification
>  > page [2] linked from anywhere from criteria pages, even transitively. Is
>  > this test case supposed to be Optional, or are we missing a criterion?
>  >
>  > Thanks for clarification.
>  >
>  > [1]
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_workstation_core_applications
>  > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification
>
>  The test case is a direct representation of
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification#Core_A...
>  . We should probably link them to clarify
>  that.
>
>  The launch requirement is there because, IIRC, Workstation SIG
>  specified that they wanted these apps to be available and runnable at
>  Beta time. 'desktop menus' is a Final criterion.
>  
Right, that link is even in the testcase, and I understand the connection.
What confuses me is that it's marked as Beta, i.e. a potential Beta
blocker, while we have no Beta/Final/any criterion for it. If say Boxes
dropped out of the compose (but still was listed on the wiki page), would
we block the release? And on what grounds?