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_Methods_Boot_Iso
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Methods_Dvd
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_Boot_Methods_Live
>
> 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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