Biodiversity
Posted by Janet
In the works, we have another short-cycle planned with a few key fixes. You can expect a call for help with the rc testing in a week or two. However, there are also some major changes going in the development background. Most recently Ben has done a bunch of frontend / backend separation work.
When I dive into the latest nightly build testing, I take a pretty mechanical approach. Does it work? Download? Search? After that I start working on the regression testing either the litmus tests or the Test Cases from the wiki page. Repetitious at times, but I am the QA and it’s my job to get to those hard to reach places.
One of our volunteers, sedatg, mainly a mac user, is also a pretty reliable nightly build tester. However, he has a different approach. He is a truly engaged user and seemingly a vapid consumer of online video. He also seems to suffer from bandwidth limitation.
So his focus when testing is about his experience using Miro to download and watch videos. He uses the irc (irc.freenode.org #miro) to communicate and troubleshoot issues with the developers and other users. He is also active in bugzilla to vote on the tickets that most concern him and communicate ideas and solutions. He claims it’s all self-interest, but whatever, it makes Miro better for all.
Another of our volunteer testers, fluteman also appears download a lot of video. I have imported his OPML channel list, and it is long and well organized. He is more of a conservative tester, usually waiting for a release candidate before moving beyond the stable release. But because of his huge channel list, he regularly manages to push Miro to it’s limits. He finds bugs that maybe not everyone would experience which keeps us on our toes and lets us know what’s lurking.
Over the next few months – we will be implementing changes to improve performance and presentation. And testing will be all about regression, regression, regression.
Biodiversity can be used to measure the health of biological systems. So whether you are a dragojevic, a sedatg, a fluteman or some other unidentified species type. Your unique approach can help maintain the health of Miro.
1.1 Testing Update
Posted by Janet
Please use the links in the previous post to get the latest release candidate for testing. Or you can just go to the Nightlies page.
Will has posted RC1 and this is what he has to say:
Differences between rc0 and rc1: r5953 - fixed #9414: adds the r number in the About box on GTKX11 r5957 - some OSX fixes r5961 - fixed #9375: fixed keyboard shortcut so cmd-D stops video in fullscreen r5963, r5968, r5969 - NullSoft installer changes to install iHeartMiro extension All Miro 1.1 rc1 files are in the sticky section on the nightlies page. It'd be cool if we could get some serious testing with rc1, identify issues quickly, and then fix fix fix...
So please grab the build and check it out. If you can take the time to run some our litmus tests it will give a good sense of how the build is looking.
1.1 Release Candidate Testing
Posted by Janet
We are ready for Miro 1.1 RC testing to begin. You can run the tests in litmus – I recommend the 1.1 pre-Release testing, test run. Start with the Quicktest then move to the New Feature and Bug Fixes section.
The biggest change for 1.1 relates to torrent downloads. We have switched over to using libtorrent, and have implemented some long asked for options. You can now control both the upload and the download rates or torrents. We also display the total number of seeders and leechers.
Other changes include updates to the navigation buttons on the Guide so that the forward, back and home will work for any additional guides added to Miro. We have also implemented a combined search feature.
You can check out the weekly testing page for a more complete summary of changes.
If anyone wants to help out with the creation of more tests, please let me know. You can reply here.