New criterion for Memory test

Petr Schindler pschindl at redhat.com
Tue Jan 31 10:28:57 UTC 2012


> From: "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:36:38 AM
> Subject: Re: New criterion for Memory test
> 
> On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 11:23 -0500, Petr Schindler wrote:
> > I propose new final criterion:
> > 
> > "The installer must be able to run memory test."
> > 
> > This feature is very useful and should work. We have test case for
> > this yet [1]. I'd move it to final release level.
> > 
> > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Memtest86
> 
> Well, it's not actually the installer. memtestx86 is a completely
> standalone thing which we just put on the images, with a boot menu
> option: if you pick it, nothing Fedora-ish at all actually runs.
> 
> Perhaps:
> 
> "All release media must include a standalone memory test utility. A
> boot
> menu option to launch this utility must be present and must work
> correctly."

I agree with that, my fault. So I propose new final criterion:

"All release media must include a standalone memory test utility. A boot menu option to launch this utility must be present and must work correctly."

Thanks Adam for your feedback.

Petr Schindler


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