QA:Installation validation testing

Introduction

Before an official Fedora release comes out, several alpha, beta and release candidate releases - known collectively as pre-releases - are made available. You can contribute by installing these pre-releases and testing them. Testing will execute test cases to verify installation of Fedora 13 on different hardware platforms and gather installation test feedback. Everyone is encouraged to test anaconda and share your ideas, tests, and results.

Scope and Approach

Testing will include:

• Manually execute test cases using DVD, CDROM, rawhide boot or live image media
• Automatically execute test cases with auto-test system. More information about install auto-test, please see Is Anaconda Broken Proposal

When are Installation Test Events

Installation Test Events occur before milestone releases. Current event can be found at:

• <<FIX ME>>

Test Plan and Template

Installation Test plans and Templates can be found here:

• QA:Fedora 13 Install Results Template|Fedora 13 Installation Results Templates]]
• Installation Results Templates
• Fedora 13 Installation Test Plans

Contact

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

• IRC: #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net
• Quality Assurance - James Laska , Adam Williamson, He Rui, Liam

Useful Links

• Fedora 12 Installation Guide
• Posting Installation Test Results
• Bug Reporting Process
• How to debug installation problems
• Fedora 13 Release Schedule