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DATE WHEN WHERE
2009-10-22 From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT) #fedora-test-day (webirc)
Under construction
The site is still under construction. Anything can change before the testday.

Purpose of this test

TODO
Some text here. ;)

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, general discussion ...

Prerequisite

TODO
Upload new RPM, update its name, what about signing it?
  • Rawhide (development version of Fedora) with graphical environment
  • SELinux disabled
  • Internet connection
  • The special-purpose Testday RPM package which includes necessary dependencies and provides all testing scripts.
    • Download and install with: yum --nogpgcheck localinstall testday-pm-0.1-2.fc12.noarch.rpm
  • Kernel debugging info:
    • Use debuginfo-install kernel or install it manually. (In case of manual installation you have to enable debug repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo.)
    • Versions of kernel and kernel-debuginfo must be the same. Please check it with:
      • uname -r
      • rpm -q kernel-debuginfo
  • Upload your hardware to Smolt according to these instructions.

Running the tests

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.

Tests

The test cases are split into test groups. Some of the tests are a bit time-consuming. Please perform as many tests as possible. If you aren't able to run them all, please remember that the tests in each table are sort by importance in descending order.

You don't have to download any special scripts for each test. Our Testday package provides following commands:

  • testday-run-testname (performing tests)
  • testday-pack-results (packing results of all tests in .tag.gz file)

There is a note about permission in the description of each test. Most of the tests can be performed as a normal user. Only a few need superuser permissions. Please follow this information.

X Window System

These tests should be performed on all systems in X11 environment.

Testcase Description ETA
personal Typical use of computer (do whatever you are doing usually). CPU states and frequencies. 10 minutes
scomes Ticks, syscall count, read/written bytes when performing some specific tasks. 1 minute

Single mode

These tests should be performed in single mode.

Refraining reboots
We recommend reading the description of both tests and performing these in sequence - to refrain more reboots.
Testcase Description ETA
tuned CPU states and frequencies when tuning daemon enabled 7 minutes
basic Stress situations (BZIP2 compression, disk copying, vsftpd test) 2 minutes

Laptops

Following tests are intended only for laptops. If you don't have a laptop, don't perform these tests because there is no easy way how to measure your system consumption.

Battery
Please charge your battery before performing any test.
Testcase Description ETA
bltk Power consumption during three simulated workloads (idle, OpenOffice, reader). 15 minutes
tunedprofiles Tuned profiles effect on power consumption. 5-20 minutes

Results

The file with results is generated with testday-pack-results. It takes all produced results, creates an compressed archive and put it into: /tmp/testday-091022-results.tar.gz

TODO
Hmm. How do we upload the results?

Construct a table or list to allow testers to post results. Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. For example:

User Smolt Profile Results file
User:FasUser HW FILE