On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 10:21 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> For the last week I have been updating our test cases, improving
> the descriptions. I would also like to make sure we don't spend
> our resources on unimportant tasks. That's why I propose we remove
> this test case:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Install_Image_Boot_Local
>
> Currently it is marked as Alpha in our installation matrix [1].
> That has no ground in our Release Criteria [2], I haven't found a
> single criterion related to this test case. If nothing else, this
> would be Final, because it is not important at all - even if the
> menu option is broken, you can always boot from local drive by
> changing your boot order in BIOS or simply unplugging the install
> media.
>
> But I believe we should remove it completely from our matrices. If
> there is an issue with "Boot from local drive" menu item, we will
> of course try to fix it. But we shouldn't spend time testing this
> over and over again for every development compose we create. This
> is really unimportant functionality. We have to be smart about
> spending our energy [3].
I don't really mind, but it's not like it takes much energy to test.
I
usually use that boot option all the time anyway, so I just mark it
as
PASS when I remember to.
Definitely mark it as optional (i.e., don't mark it), but I don't
mind
whether we take it out entirely or leave it in.
I expect I'll propose more test cases for deletion for the same reason, so I was a bit
ahead of time. This one doesn't really require much time to test, right.
I was considering whether the optional category is useful at all. But afterwards I decided
to do one step at a time. So I've marked this test case as optional now, and once we
accumulate enough optional tests/I finish the test cases review, we can then discuss what
to do with them.