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Originally Posted by hypoxic View Post
Is there any sort of list of what tests are considered to have been pased when an app makes it from extras-devel to -testing?

Like is there a battery of automated tests run by Nokia/Maemo that can confirm simple go/no go before Testers start to look at a new build? What having lots of Testers looking at builds should be focused on is finding more in depth issues that a dev might not have anticipated. Aditionally it helps find if something behaves differently than expected on your specific device and configuration. Things like, are all dependencies there or, does an install go to where ALL apps are expected to go should be simple automated entry requirements and Testers should not be expected to have to worry about wasting their valuable time on code that doesn't meet this bar.

If this system of testing 'quality gates' doesn't exist now thats fine, but it would be nice to know the Nokia/Maemo plan to provide and how we can help once the resources are available.

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If we don't actually have this at present then I think we ought to at least get a list of manual checks together and then document a standard way of achieving this. automated testing could then be built from this framework.

Does anyone have a starting point on this. Not sure I will retain my sanity editing it direct on the Wiki but I can do it offline and paste in enbulk I suppose.