QA/BVT
Introduction
Build Verification Testing, BVT for short, is a set of tests that run on new build to verify that whether the build is testable or not. It is done prior to its release to test team for further testing. This testing is done for Build Validation and Build Acceptance.
Prerequisites
Platform
Test machine with OS in below list: WindowsXP, Windows7 32bit, Windows7 64bit,Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat,Mac
Environment tools
- SVN Client:
On Windows: Download and Install TortoiseSVN as SVN Client to checkout sourcecode.
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
- JDK: JDK 1.5, JDK 1.6 or above.
- Ant: Apache Ant 1.8.2 or above.
- JUnit: JUnit 4.10 or above. For lazy people, if internet is available, it can be automatically installed during testing.
Soft Skills
Basic skills about Windows Command line, Linux/Mac Terminal
How to run BVT
Getting the source code
Anyone can checkout source code from our Subversion repository. Run the following command.
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/test/ test
Run testing
As a normal user, how to run testing against an installed OpenOffice?
Firstly compile the project with the command under test module.
ant -Dopenoffice.home="OpenOffice installation directory" compile
Then start testing with the command "run". e.g. Run all test classes under package bvt
run -Dopenoffice.home="/Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents" -tp bvt
e.g. Run the given test classes
run -Dopenoffice.home="/Applications/OpenOffice.org.app/Contents" -tc bvt.gui.BasicFunctionTest
Where to get the testing result?
By default, the testing output is stored in "test/testspace/output***". Open "test/testspace/output/result.html" in your browser to see the testing report.
Special stuff in the output directory.
result.xml: Test result in HTML. result.html: Test result in XML. screenshot/: Screenshot pictures when test assert is failed.
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