| Fedora Test Day | |
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| Workstation Graphical Upgrade | |
| Date | 2016-06-16 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | QA/Test Days |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
| Mailing list | test |
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.
What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on upgrading from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 Workstation with Gnome-software
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - hughsie (hughsie), mclasen (mclasen)
- Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw), Petr Schindler (pschindl), Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantro)
Prerequisite for Test Day
List of all prerequisite for the test event.
- A fully updated Fedora 23 Workstation installation, either on bare metal or in VM (please make sure you have no important data on that device, things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine)
- Free space on HD
How to test?
- Make sure you are running Fedora 23 Workstation with a decent internet connection and root access.
- Enable COPR repo run
dnf copr enable rhughes/f23-gnome320 - fully update your machine and reboot
- Reboot and look for fedora.json which you will find
~/.cache/gnome-software/3.20/upgrades/fedora.json - Once inside search for f24 change the corresponding key pair value from Under Development to Active
{
"allow_retire": true,
"branchname": "f24",
"date_created": "2016-02-23 22:57:55",
"date_updated": "2016-02-25 20:39:53",
"dist_tag": ".fc24",
"koji_name": "f24",
"name": "Fedora",
"status": "Active",
"version": "24"
}
- Gnome-software will prompt for update,accepting the update will download and install F24 Workstation.
You can start by following the test cases mention here
Run the tests
You can see QA:Testcase_Workstation_Graphical_Upgrade , execute the test case and and can post your results in the test day results page .
Reporting bugs
Include some instructions on how to report bugs, and any special instructions.
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla u If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-testday #fedora-qa and we will help you.
Test Results
Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.