QA:SOP Installation Test

Introduction

Installation testing is a very important service offered by the QA team. It provides coordinated and focused testing of official Fedora installation media prior to a release milestone (e.g. Alpha, Beta, Preview, GA). This page describes the steps involved when coordinating an installation test event. For any concerns, please contact the QA group.

Set a date for install test

The install test event is held one or two weeks before the release date for any given milestone. See quality task schedule for specific dates for Fedora 41. DVD/CD/LiveCD images for download need to be made available before this date, and this time should not conflict with other important Fedora events.

Create test result page

The test result page is used to gather test result of installation against Fedora Release Candidate builds. This page mainly includes test cases which need to be executed and tables to gather the results. Refer to QA:Create_Install_Test_Result_Page for guidance to create such a page using QA:Fedora 41_Install_Results_Template.

Announce install test event

Currently, we announce install test events to the test-announce. The announcement mail should provide enough information related to the test focus areas. For example:

• Introduction of this test event (date, what to test, known bugs, etc...)
• What test cases need to be executed
• Download address of DVD/CD/LiveCD images
• How and where to add test results
• Contact information of QA members who are available on test event and can help testers who encounter problems.

It is best to announce this event on the mailing list at least 3 days in advance. This should give testers sufficient time to arrange their calendars and prepare a test environment. It is also a good idea to send a reminder e-mail the day before the test.

Try to take timezones into account, to maximize convenience for testers from different regions or countries.

Provide help during install test

During install test event, lots of people will be involved, including experienced users and new comers. Make sure the QA folks whose contact information was announced to mailing list in this test event are available during the testing period. They will provide assistance to those who encounter issues. QA people should be available at：

• IRC: #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list: test list
• Reference of ways to communicate at Communicate

Report and Summary

After testing was accomplished，give a report to all testers, to let them know the status of this round of testing and what achievement has been made. Report at least includes:

• Test status. A summary about what has been tested, what's remaining to accomplish, what issues were faced during test and whether we have achieved testing aim.
• Reported bugs. List filed bugs and reported issues which were found during test. Bug list including bug id,bug status,bug summary,etc.
• Some analysis to test result. Analyze the gathered results and mind testers what need further attention in the future.
• Thanks to all testers

The following command can help you generate a bug list:

curl "https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test" \
 | grep -o "bugzilla\.redhat\.com.*[=\/][0-9]\{6\}" \
 | grep -o "[0-9]\{6\}" | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's|,$||' \
 | xargs bugzilla query --outputformat="%{bug_id} %{bug_status} %{resolution} - %{short_desc}" -b

This command requires the python-bugzilla package be installed. You may need to weed out any 'false' references to pre-existing bugs which are mentioned on the page for some reason. After you finish the report, please send it to test-announce mailing list.