[Test-Announce] Call for reviewing TCMS use cases and comparison!

[He Rui]

Hi James,

Wow, firstly, many thanks for your careful review of all the items.:)

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:08 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:36 +0800, He Rui wrote:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > Wiki workflow/use cases are reorganized and grouped by general and main
> > test events(runs) use cases. The general cases cover the basic uses of
> > wiki, and the events cases covers the detailed certain steps for
> > organizing the events.
> > 
> > Please review it:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rhe/tcms_use_cases
> > 
> >     
> > Meanwhile, Wiki and Nitrate comparison is also listed and grouped by
> > above use cases. I've listed as many features as I can think out for
> > comparison. Please have a look and see if any features are missed. You
> > can review it by the use case you're familiar with if reviewing all of
> > them is tough, but be aware that features compared in former use cases
> > are not listed in later cases again to avoid overlaps:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rhe/tcms_Comparison
> > 
> >  
> > Ticket#152[1] is currently set up for tracking this event. Feel free to
> > add comments or discuss it here. 
> > 
> > Note: the feedback deadline is Jan 21, the end of this week. After that
> > date, I'll move forward to the next phase. 
> > 
> > Waiting for your feedback!
> 
> Woah, I like the fancy table layout used for comparing use cases between
> the wiki and nitrate!  Thank you for taking the time to identify our
> current test workflows and offer a comparison between nitrate and the
> wiki.  You've got a really comprehensive list of use cases that will
> certainly help us evaluate nitrate.
> 
> While looking through the comparison wiki, I've noted a few
> comments/questions below.  Hope this helps!
> 
> I'm unclear what the use case 'Creating A Common Page' is, can you
> elaborate?  Is that when we create a category page to group all test
> results for a milestone (e.g.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fedora_14_Pre-Alpha_Test_Results)?

No, it means creating a general new page on wiki, like a documentation
page etc, and test cases/plans/categories/results pages are particular
cases based on creating a normal page like this. It lists what a user
may do when creating a new page. 

> Under 'creating a common page', the row titled 'Submitting format'.
> Would that be better named as 'Supports data entry using a form'?

Ah great, I've changed it.
> 
> Under 'creating a common page', there is a row titled 'Subpage using'.
> I don't think I understand that use case, can you explain?

Okay, for example on wiki, Test_Days is under the path of QA like:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days

So I tried to compare if nitrate can also organize sub-page under its
main page. 

> Under section 'Creating A Test Case', there are some red cells for the
> wiki for (these are also under 'Creating a Test Plan').  What does the
> 'red' mean.  Does it mean that they are not possible, or that the
> solution provided is not optimal?

Oh the first two below are not optimal, the last one is not possible on
wiki. 

>       * Renaming a case - move to another page

I think moving to another page is not a good way to rename a case, there
will be two link addresses for this case.   

>       * Case draft status - manually add draft category/note

It's better to have a case status called draft, or proposed like nitrate
does.

>       * Case review status - approved in ticket or somewhere else

It's better to have a case status called 'confirmed', or 'need update'
or 'disabled' like nitrate. I remember we used to track the cases status
in tickets and after approved in tickets or reviewed in test@,   


> Also under section 'Creating A Test Case', the row titled 'Test case
> re-use (write once, link anywhere)' talks about nitrate support for
> cloning tests.  Does this create a new copy of the original, or does it
> re-use the existing test?  If any changes are made to one, are the
> propagated to the other clone?
> 
> Under 'Creating A Test Result Page Template', the row titled 'Group
> cases (by media)', I imagine nitrate supports other methods of
> grouping/organizing tests in a test run?  Oh wait ... this is grouping,
> not sorting.  How would this be done with nitrate, would a test run be
> created for each media type?  Or would we sort tests of different media
> types differently?
> 
> Under 'Creating A Test Result Page', the row titled 'Redirecting
> links' ... is this when a test run has expired, or been replaced by a
> newer test run?  Like if we get RC2, we'll go and adjust RC1 so people
> know it's no longer active?  Not sure what to call this feature, retire
> a test run?
> 
> Under 'Posting Test Results', the row titled 'Opening current links' ...
> I'm trying to think of a more generic name for that feature.  Maybe
> 'Quick access to active test runs' instead?
> 
> Under 'Generating A Test Summary', the row titled 'Result summary/report
> generation'.  Haha, you list that as *RED* ... very accurate! :)
> 
> Under 'Administering', the row titled 'License', is this the license for
> nitrate and mediawiki, or the license for the content in the cases,
> plans and results?
> 
> Under 'Release Validation Test Event', the row titled 'Roadmap for each
> run' ... can you explain, or link to, what is meant by this?
> 
> Thanks again!
> James
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