Re: Draft: clarified 'boot method' test cases

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-08-21 18:10, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  Hey, folks. As discussed a couple of weeks back, I've always
> believed
>  the boot.iso, DVD and live boot method test cases ought to test bare
>  metal booting of actual physical optical media: we have no other test
>  cases specifically for this, and we do have other test cases
>  specifically for USB media and virtual machines (now). So it doesn't
>  seem to make sense to consider a VM or USB test as a 'pass' for these
>  test cases; potentially that could mean we ship a release without 
>  ever
>  actually checking that it can be written to and booted from a real
>  optical disc.
>
>  So, I've drafted up tweaked versions of three test cases which make
>  this much clearer (and, in passing, remove obsolete references to
>  anaconda's 'loader' stage, which no longer exists):
>
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Metho...
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Metho...
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Metho...
>
>  The first two are slightly modified versions of:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Boot_Iso
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Dvd
>
>  The third is intended to replace:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Live_Image_Boot
>
>  Which is really very similar to the first two, but - presumably just
>  because it happened to get written at a different time by a different
>  person, or something - was worded quite differently and not named in
>  the same way. It's newer than the other two, but really I kinda 
>  prefer
>  the wording of the earlier ones. It seems to make sense to replace it
>  with a test case based on the same wording and naming scheme as the
>  other two.
>
>  Comments, improvements, suggestions, complaints? Lay 'em on! Thanks. 
I haven't received any feedback on this yet. If no-one complains, I'll 
go ahead and put them in place in the next few days. So, speak now or 
forever hold your peace :)
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