Orca [Fwd: /A11Y testing notes]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

What conference number should we use, and what time is good for Beijing,
US East, and Ireland for the followup meeting on Dec 18th?

Will

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• From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
• To: jds-a11y Sun COM
• Cc: Harry Burks Sun COM, orca-devel sun com
• Subject: Orca/A11Y testing notes
• Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:20:03 -0500

Hi All:

Thanks for your time at the Orca/A11Y testing meeting the other night.  
I think we made some good progress and I look forward to Beijing's help 
with testing both Orca and the AT-SPI infrastructure.  I think the 
conclusions we reached were:

  0) Regression testing for Orca is dearly needed.  We're using the
     Orca test harness because it's all we have for now and it helps
     fill our near term testing gap.

  1) Tim will take a look at the written Orca test plan and the
     automated Orca test harness and we'll meet again on Dec 18th,
     where 'we' means Ireland, Beijing, and US East Coast (me).
     Between now and Dec 18th, it is expected that Tim and I will
     exchange a fair amount of e-mail.

  2) While the textual description of tests is mostly applicable
     to all distributions that GNOME ships on, Tim will focus 
     primarily on creating automated tests for Solaris.

  3) There is an opportunity for Beijing to lead (or at least 
     help lead) the overall testing strategy for GNOME

One of the action items from meeting was for me to distribute notes on 
the Orca testing harness, which Tim would then read and start evaluating.  
I've written some notes up here:

  http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/test/README

The document also points to the work that Mike Pedersen from the Orca 
team has been doing with respect to writing textual descriptions of 
tests for Orca:

  http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/docs/doc-set/orca.html#TESTINGPLAN

As I mentioned in the meeting, things are still incomplete and we don't
view the above work as final.  We really welcome the testing experience
and background that Tim (and Beijung) are bringing to the effort.  In
addition, there is definitely an opportunity for looking at the larger 
GNOME testing picture using something such as LDTP and/or Dogtail, but 
we really really need good regression testing for Orca right now.

Thanks!

Will

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