Draft: clarified 'boot method' test cases

[Colby Mckethen]

Adam,

All of these look good to me
On Aug 28, 2012 3:52 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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_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_Dvd>
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_**
>> Testcase_Boot_Methods_Live<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_Boot_Iso>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_**Dvd<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Boot_Methods_Dvd>
>>
>> The third is intended to replace:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/QA:Testcase_Live_Image_**Boot<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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