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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
On 01/31/2018 02:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Carl Marcum <cm...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/30/2018 05:47 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I previously posted, the old TestLink instance is still alive but NOT
>>>> well on: http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/login.php?note=expired
>>>>
>>>> referenced from the Apache OpenOffice QA information at:
>>>> https://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html
>>>>
>>>> * Is there any interest in revising TestLink completely?
>>>>
>>>> This would require contacting adfinish-sygroup.org to establish a new
>>>> admin for our TestLink instance who would then be responsible for general
>>>> oversight of this platform including adding users, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Recently, I setup a guest account and had a look around. It seems SOME
>>>> tests are continuing to be run automatically (bvt, etc.), but they are
>>>> referencing the old 4.0.x series and I have no knowledge of how any of this
>>>> is setup.
>>>>
>>>> * Is there any interest in salvaging the existing test cases (manual
>>>> write-ups) from the TestLink system and porting them to the AOO svn tree
>>>> under "/test" with a new sub-are named "manual_tests" or something similar.
>>>>
>>>> The manual test cases most recently pertained to 4.0.x but I'm sure they
>>>> could continue to be used for the 4.1.x and 4.2.x series.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Kay,
>>>
>>> I hope to one day soon try my hand at some QA.
>>>
>>> I just looked around TestLink and it looks interesting.
>>> Is this web service donated to the project?
>>>
>>> Is there a risk of loosing this information somehow?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Carl
>>>
>>>
>> Carl, I don't really know the answer to your first question about
>> donation of the Testlink platform to AOO.
>>
>> Yuzhen Fan, a current committer and PMC member, seems to be the last
>> administrator of
>> Testlink with the Adfinis group, and may have some answers on this.
>>
>> On the second question. Although there are some test cases ported to the
>> AOO user wiki, we would be wise to collect up the test cases on the
>> Testlink platform as soon as we can for safekeeping.
>>
>> Previously, I was only involved in QA as a tester.
>>
> A slight clarification on this response.
>
> The TestLink instance on
> http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/
> was setup and administered by members of the QA area initially, all PMC
> members.
>
> Some AOO committers involved in QA, myself included, had administrative
> capabilities within the AOO TestLink instance but not the actual instance
> itself.
>
>
Hi Kay,
Thanks for the clarification.
I agree that having important information such as this only outside of
Apache controlled assets is a risk.
I would be good if they have a way to export them so we at least
maintain a copy.
I can also see the benefit of the service being maintained as long as
it's available to us.
Best regards,
Carl
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On 02/09/2018 09:35 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pescetti@apache.org
> <ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>
> If this is the issue, that instance will have an
> administrator that can do
> the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when
> needed, so you might
> want to ask there.
>
> Will do. Might it be OK to contact Adfinis directly about this?
>
>
> Of course. I don't have any contacts, but maybe you can find
> something in the dev list archives.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
> I just sent a short message to their general Contact Us email.
> Meanwhile, I'll move on to some other items.
>
> We can always just do some cutting-and-pasting and get these cases put
> someplace else.
>
>
Another quick update about this. It seems you can bring up "test cases"
and use Print view to bring them up separately in your browser. So, I'm
going through the cases using this appraoch and saving them
individually. When I've got this complete, I will upload them to the wiki.
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>
wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>
>>> If this is the issue, that instance will have an administrator that can
>>> do
>>> the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when needed, so you
>>> might
>>> want to ask there.
>>>
>> Will do. Might it be OK to contact Adfinis directly about this?
>>
>
> Of course. I don't have any contacts, but maybe you can find something in
> the dev list archives.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
>
I just sent a short message to their general Contact Us email. Meanwhile,
I'll move on to some other items.
We can always just do some cutting-and-pasting and get these cases put
someplace else.
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"Ring out the false, ring in the true."
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Kay Schenk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>> If this is the issue, that instance will have an administrator that can do
>> the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when needed, so you might
>> want to ask there.
> Will do. Might it be OK to contact Adfinis directly about this?
Of course. I don't have any contacts, but maybe you can find something
in the dev list archives.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 01/02/2018 Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>> I can browse the test cases -- and there are a LOT of them -- but not do
>> an export as described in the documentation
>>
>
> If this is the issue, that instance will have an administrator that can do
> the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when needed, so you might
> want to ask there.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
Will do. Might it be OK to contact Adfinis directly about this?
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Mechtilde wrote:
> I don'tknow exactly which system you mean.
This discussion is about Testlink. See https://s.apache.org/HxCf for the
archives.
> But if we have any old notations about testing this would help us to
> create new one.
The idea is simply to get hold of the Testlink system and all testcases
it already contains (so that we can make a backup of them, just in
case). We haven't used it for years, and I personally have never used it
at all, but apparently it is good enough and it would simply need to be
reactivated.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Mechtilde <oo...@mechtilde.de>.
Hello Andrea,
hello *,
I don'tknow exactly which system you mean.
But if we have any old notations about testing this would help us to
create new one.
Is there also a new tool like a testtool available where we can crate
the new one step by step.
Kind regards
Mechtilde
Am 06.02.2018 um 23:37 schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
> On 01/02/2018 Kay Schenk wrote:
>> I can browse the test cases -- and there are a LOT of them -- but not
>> do an export as described in the documentation
>
> If this is the issue, that instance will have an administrator that can
> do the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when needed, so you
> might want to ask there.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 01/02/2018 Kay Schenk wrote:
> I can browse the test cases -- and there are a LOT of them -- but not do
> an export as described in the documentation
If this is the issue, that instance will have an administrator that can
do the export. Adfinis guys show up on the dev list when needed, so you
might want to ask there.
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
On 01/31/2018 07:27 PM, DurgaPrasad Potnuru wrote:
> it should be possible to export test cases from test link to OOCalc. Check
> below links.
>
> http://demo.testlink.org/latest/docs/tl-file-formats.pdf
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19003017/testlink-export-complete-test-cases-into-openoffice
>
> As such testlink is a very handy tool I believe, but I also agree we need
> to take a call whether we continue to use it otherwise migrate the valuable
> test cases data into platform in use.
> If we are migrating we need to take a call of what to do with whether
> 1)shall we update User wiki at
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/#AOO_3.4_General_Testing_Test_Cases
> or
> 2)keep the test cases Calc sheet for ready reference.
> <<I can contribute here>>
>
> In the end, I believe we need to have all test cases in one place with some
> IDs where all QA volunteers can share them and run the test cases.
>
> I
Thank you for investigating this. Yes, we do need to have all test cases
in one area and the wiki is a good place. You might find it helpful to
just setup a guest account on the now abandoned server and have a look
around:
http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/login.php?note=expired
What I experience using my guest account is that I can browse the test
cases -- and there are a LOT of them -- but not do an export as
described in the documentation for Testlink 1.9.3 --
http://demo.testlink.org/latest/docs/tl-file-formats.pdf
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Carl Marcum <cm...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On 01/31/2018 02:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Carl Marcum <cm...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/30/2018 05:47 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> As I previously posted, the old TestLink instance is still alive but NOT
>>>>>> well on: http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/login.php?note=expired
>>>>>>
>>>>>> referenced from the Apache OpenOffice QA information at:
>>>>>> https://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Is there any interest in revising TestLink completely?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would require contacting adfinish-sygroup.org to establish a new
>>>>>> admin for our TestLink instance who would then be responsible for
>>>>>> general
>>>>>> oversight of this platform including adding users, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently, I setup a guest account and had a look around. It seems SOME
>>>>>> tests are continuing to be run automatically (bvt, etc.), but they are
>>>>>> referencing the old 4.0.x series and I have no knowledge of how any of
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> is setup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Is there any interest in salvaging the existing test cases (manual
>>>>>> write-ups) from the TestLink system and porting them to the AOO svn
>>>>>> tree
>>>>>> under "/test" with a new sub-are named "manual_tests" or something
>>>>>> similar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The manual test cases most recently pertained to 4.0.x but I'm sure
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> could continue to be used for the 4.1.x and 4.2.x series.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Kay,
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope to one day soon try my hand at some QA.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just looked around TestLink and it looks interesting.
>>>>> Is this web service donated to the project?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a risk of loosing this information somehow?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Carl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Carl, I don't really know the answer to your first question about
>>>> donation of the Testlink platform to AOO.
>>>>
>>>> Yuzhen Fan, a current committer and PMC member, seems to be the last
>>>> administrator of
>>>> Testlink with the Adfinis group, and may have some answers on this.
>>>>
>>>> On the second question. Although there are some test cases ported to the
>>>> AOO user wiki, we would be wise to collect up the test cases on the
>>>> Testlink platform as soon as we can for safekeeping.
>>>>
>>>> Previously, I was only involved in QA as a tester.
>>>>
>>>> A slight clarification on this response.
>>>
>>> The TestLink instance on
>>> http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/
>>> was setup and administered by members of the QA area initially, all PMC
>>> members.
>>>
>>> Some AOO committers involved in QA, myself included, had administrative
>>> capabilities within the AOO TestLink instance but not the actual instance
>>> itself.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Kay,
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> I agree that having important information such as this only outside of
>> Apache controlled assets is a risk.
>>
>> I would be good if they have a way to export them so we at least maintain
>> a copy.
>>
>> I can also see the benefit of the service being maintained as long as it's
>> available to us.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Carl
>>
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>>
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Re: Testing: Is there any interest in the old TestLink system and/or
test cases?
Posted by DurgaPrasad Potnuru <pv...@gmail.com>.
it should be possible to export test cases from test link to OOCalc. Check
below links.
http://demo.testlink.org/latest/docs/tl-file-formats.pdf
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19003017/testlink-export-complete-test-cases-into-openoffice
As such testlink is a very handy tool I believe, but I also agree we need
to take a call whether we continue to use it otherwise migrate the valuable
test cases data into platform in use.
If we are migrating we need to take a call of what to do with whether
1)shall we update User wiki at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/#AOO_3.4_General_Testing_Test_Cases
or
2)keep the test cases Calc sheet for ready reference.
<<I can contribute here>>
In the end, I believe we need to have all test cases in one place with some
IDs where all QA volunteers can share them and run the test cases.
I
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Carl Marcum <cm...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 01/31/2018 02:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Carl Marcum <cm...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/30/2018 05:47 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As I previously posted, the old TestLink instance is still alive but NOT
>>>>> well on: http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/login.php?note=expired
>>>>>
>>>>> referenced from the Apache OpenOffice QA information at:
>>>>> https://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html
>>>>>
>>>>> * Is there any interest in revising TestLink completely?
>>>>>
>>>>> This would require contacting adfinish-sygroup.org to establish a new
>>>>> admin for our TestLink instance who would then be responsible for
>>>>> general
>>>>> oversight of this platform including adding users, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently, I setup a guest account and had a look around. It seems SOME
>>>>> tests are continuing to be run automatically (bvt, etc.), but they are
>>>>> referencing the old 4.0.x series and I have no knowledge of how any of
>>>>> this
>>>>> is setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Is there any interest in salvaging the existing test cases (manual
>>>>> write-ups) from the TestLink system and porting them to the AOO svn
>>>>> tree
>>>>> under "/test" with a new sub-are named "manual_tests" or something
>>>>> similar.
>>>>>
>>>>> The manual test cases most recently pertained to 4.0.x but I'm sure
>>>>> they
>>>>> could continue to be used for the 4.1.x and 4.2.x series.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kay,
>>>>
>>>> I hope to one day soon try my hand at some QA.
>>>>
>>>> I just looked around TestLink and it looks interesting.
>>>> Is this web service donated to the project?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a risk of loosing this information somehow?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Carl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Carl, I don't really know the answer to your first question about
>>> donation of the Testlink platform to AOO.
>>>
>>> Yuzhen Fan, a current committer and PMC member, seems to be the last
>>> administrator of
>>> Testlink with the Adfinis group, and may have some answers on this.
>>>
>>> On the second question. Although there are some test cases ported to the
>>> AOO user wiki, we would be wise to collect up the test cases on the
>>> Testlink platform as soon as we can for safekeeping.
>>>
>>> Previously, I was only involved in QA as a tester.
>>>
>>> A slight clarification on this response.
>>
>> The TestLink instance on
>> http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/
>> was setup and administered by members of the QA area initially, all PMC
>> members.
>>
>> Some AOO committers involved in QA, myself included, had administrative
>> capabilities within the AOO TestLink instance but not the actual instance
>> itself.
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Kay,
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> I agree that having important information such as this only outside of
> Apache controlled assets is a risk.
>
> I would be good if they have a way to export them so we at least maintain
> a copy.
>
> I can also see the benefit of the service being maintained as long as it's
> available to us.
>
> Best regards,
> Carl
>
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