The Ubuntu QA team is proud to announce that the project ubuntu-qa-tools, written to make our lives as testers and triagers easier, is now packaged and available in Jaunty Jackalope (future Ubuntu 9.04).

If you're running the development version of Ubuntu, you can give it a try (and report any bugs...).

Some of the things that you will find there:

• check-needs-packaging - checks for bugs that require new packaging
• body-searching - search bugs with a particular text
• count-senders - quantity of messages sent by individuals to the bug mailinglist
• tagged-bugs - search for tagged bugs in Launchpad
• triager-query - search for actions of a particular triager
• dl-ubuntu-test-iso - downloads ISOs for testing using rsync
• iso-ripper - rips debs out of downloaded isos
• debian-bug-search - searches the Debian bug tracking system

We are pleased to announce the first Ubuntu Testing Day that will be next Monday, September 22nd.

The Ubuntu Testing day is a special day where the Ubuntu Community comes together with a shared goal of testing an specific set of ISO images (Alpha, Beta, RC, Gold or Point releases). Taking the idea from the Ubuntu Bug Day we want to apply the same concepts to ISO testing.

Who can join the Testing Day?
Everyone. You don’t need to be a developer. You don’t need to know how to code. Everyone is welcome. If you don’t know how to help, then just stop on by and we’ll explain everything to you. In fact, one of the objectives of the Testing Day is to help people willing to start testing Ubuntu to make it better.

Where to join the Testing Day?
Come to #ubuntu-testing on freenode IRC. We will be there day and night resolving your testing questions you might have. You can even ask for help on creating new automated tests for Ubuntu! Normal testing activity takes place in #ubuntu-testing at other times also.

Which activities are planned for that day?
During the Testing Day we will be testing the Intrepid Alpha 6 release. We will ensure that ISO images install correctly and that they work as expected. The wiki has some information about ISO testing procedures.

We will be running some introductory sessions about the tools and procedures to make testing easier and more efficient.

Also, we are in the middle of the process of cleaning our Test Cases, and move them to a specific wiki. You can help with the process and make Ubuntu testing easier for new testers.

Join us in the Ubuntu Testing Day!

For the next hug day, on Tuesday, June 24th, we will be doing something quite different. We generally focus on moving bugs from the New status to Incomplete or Confirmed, but on the next hug day we'll work on helping move bugs from Fix Committed to Fix Released! We'll do this by verifying that packages in the hardy-proposed repository fix the bugs they were designed to and that the package still functions that way it should. The list of targeted bugs and tasks is posted at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080624

Our goal is to have at least two people test every bug in that list. In particular there are a number of installer, Wubi, and Java fixes that we'd like to verify. So on 24 June 2008, in all timezones, we'll be meeting in #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net for a very special Ubuntu Hug Day.

Okay, okay so it's a small virtual screen, but it's a start.

UME (Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded) is not ready for your mobile phone or pda yet, but it will work on the new batches of ultra small x86 pc's that are emerging from major manufacturers.

So you've seen the pretty picture and now you want it. Well follow the simple guide here and you can test it on your pc using KVM (kernel virtual machine) or MIC (moblin image creator). There are a bunch of things to try out here.

If you think it's great and want to complement everyone, or your having issue, you can find them on #ubuntu-testing and #ubuntu-mobile.

If you find bugs, glitches, design flaws etc report them here .

Thanks for the help and happy mobile testing.

Hello,

Last week I was requesting everyone interested in helping making Hardy Heron the best Ubuntu release ever to come and help us test ISO images.
I think we can say it was a great success as we had all the testcases done in time, lots of bugs found and fixed for most of them.
I want to say a big thank you to everyone involved in testing Hardy so far.

Now with the final release due to Thursday (24th) we will need even more testers during this week.
Testing for final release is absolutely identical to what we did for the Release Candidate except that we would like every testcases to be tested twice.

If you want to help, please join #ubuntu-testing on irc.freenode.net where we will be hanging the whole week coordinating testing.

Our testing procedures can be found here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures
and the testcases here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cases

Pick the one you prefer or ask for one in #ubuntu-testing and follow it step by step.
Then report your results on our tracker : http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com (login is the same as Brainstorm and other QA websites)
If you find a bug, report it : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Testing can be done in a virtual machine (Virtualbox for example) or on real hardware (preferred). As Hardy is still not in a final stage avoid doing install/upgrade on production computers.

Additional information can be found here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing

Hey everyone,

As you may know, this week we will release Hardy's Release Candidate which is the last build before final.
RC is due for release on this Thursday (17th of April) and final a week after (24th of April).

In order to give you the best tested and stable release of Ubuntu ever, we are currently looking for testers.
If you want to help, please join #ubuntu-testing on irc.freenode.net where we will be hanging the whole week coordinating testing.

Our testing procedures can be found here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures
and the testcases here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cases

Pick the one you prefer or ask for one in #ubuntu-testing and follow it step by step.
Then report your results on our tracker : http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com (login is the same as Brainstorm and other QA websites)
If you find a bug, report it : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Testing can be done in a virtual machine (Virtualbox for example) or on real hardware (preferred). As Hardy is still not in a final stage avoid doing install/upgrade on production computers.

Additional information can be found here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing