[maemo-developers] QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

[From: Niels Breet]

> Just for thought since I uploaded my app to the fremantle autobuilder
> last night:
>
> The Tabletbridge application connects to Roku Soundbridge devices.
> It's pretty useless if you don't have a Soundbridge on your network.
> I'm sure there are similar applications that are not self contained.
> Of the testing group that you have available, how many will have
> Soundbridges on their network? Will my application not be allowed in
> extras because of this?
>

One idea I'm currently working on with Jeremiah is to have 'karma' voting
for the package. This would mean that the package gets promoted
automatically either after X amount of positive votes or after X days
without negative votes. Whenever there are negative votes, the debmaster
and/or some community QA people should check the package out manually.

Every package would go through automated QA tests first, so no package
will get promoted without at least some basic tests.

The negative votes would serve as a warning flag for the QA people to take
a look. If no negative votes have been received then the package should
just go through.

> I grant you can do some basic tests that the application will start
> and install but you won't be able to detect a crash or battery drain as a
> majority of the code is not executed until a connection is made.
>

Testing applications which depend on external hardware are always hard to
test.

> Frank

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster