#72: Proposal for reducing test permutations
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Reporter: rhe | Owner: rhe
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 14
Component: Test Review | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by rhe):
Replying to [comment:6 adamwill]:
> "Reason: In real world, users upgrade directly to the release after the
next should be very few"
>
> This is not actually the case. Quite a lot of people run alternate
releases, because that's the longest possible refresh cycle allowed by our
maintenance policies. People who don't want to go through the hassle of
doing a distro upgrade every six months run alternate releases, so they
only have to do it every twelve months.
>
> "and no release criteria is defined on this"
>
> Indeed this is true, but I believe this test exists because we recognize
that, in practice, people do run alternate releases so we should at least
know about and be able to document any issues with this.
I see. If quite many people run alternative releases, I agree to keep this
test, but then I hope the release criteria can reflect the priority of it
rather than no priority like that in F13.
> "Reason: In F14, the tests would be grouped according to install media,
and default package install is included in each media installation. So I'd
like to remove minimal install, since default one has already covered it."
>
> I don't quite understand this. We test the minimal install functionality
to make sure it works. Sure, all the same packages are in the default
install, but that's not the same as saying the minimal installation
function works as intended. Am I misreading you?
As you said, my thought was that all the packages are the same in the
default install, minimal one can be removed. But you're right, that
doesn't mean the minimal install works, especially when James updated this
test.
>
> "Reason: How many people will install using ext2 filesystem?! "
>
> Agreed, this one is outdated now. (Some people use ext2 on SSDs because
they think journalling will kill the hardware, but such people are wrong.
:>)
>
> "Reason: I think the other partitioning tests and
QA/TestCases/BootMethodsKVM(Install on a new created kvm) have somehow
covered this test. "
>
> This seems reasonable.
Many thanks for your comments Which make things more clear. :)
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