[Systers-dev] Urgent bug and need for a test cycle

[Malveeka Tewari]

I'd like to help with the bug testing!


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Robin Jeffries <robin at jeffries.org> wrote:

> Oh, for those of you who are interested in the bug, you can follow along by
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583379
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> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583379>Robin
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Robin Jeffries <robin at jeffries.org>
> wrote:
>
> > We've found an important bug that needs to be fixed ASAP.
> >
> > A syster tried to access her mailman options page and caused mailman to
> > die.  Kanika vats and I did some poking around, and the problem is that
> she
> > has an email address in the dlist database with upper case characters.
>  That
> > didn't match the key we were searching on (which was all lower case), so
> we
> > couldn't find her record, and mailman summarily crashed (luckily mailman
> > does a great job of recovering from problems like this and restarts with
> > almost no side effects).
> >
> > Kanika Vats is going to fix the problem (which apparently exists in
> several
> > places; we never noticed it before because it's currently not possible to
> > create a record with upper case letters in the email key, so none of our
> > testing exposed this. ) She's doing it, a) because she found the problem,
> > and b) because it is in the code she wrote last summer, though it looks
> like
> > the problem existed before her changes.  We will need to pull this over
> to
> > abiwt.org, our current testing machine, and run a mini test cycle on it,
> > as quickly as we can.  (Jen, are we still using abiwt.org for
> integration
> > testing, or should we be using the new machine?)
> >
> > For the test cycle, I'm hoping that Jason, who is the mentor for our
> > testing project and Vidya, the student on that project, can use this as a
> > chance to learn how testing works now (so you really know what you are
> > trying to improve). We can take our current set of manual tests and pare
> > this cycle down to just the ones that access the dlist database, plus a
> > couple that test the core functionality (like the ability to send to the
> > list).  I'm happy to work with you two to figure out what those tests
> are.
> >  (This could get started now, so that we are ready to test when the code
> is
> > done).
> >
> > Then we will need folks from this list to help with the testing.  It's
> > probably only 4-5 hours work total, which, if we get lots of people, we
> can
> > get done with about 30 minutes of work on the part of each tester.
> >  Students, this will be a chance for you to learn about system testing,
> > which will serve you well this summer, plus you will learn more about how
> > mailman works, so I hope that all of you will participate.    I'll leave
> it
> > to Vidya and Jason to organize that when we get this far, which I hope
> will
> > be early next week.
> >
> > We are also going to use this to try out a code review.  I was hoping to
> > have a bit more structure in place before doing it, but this gives me (as
> > code reviewer) and kanika vats (as person being reviewed) a chance to
> figure
> > out how to use the tools that launchpad provides.  We are going to expect
> > everyone to have their code reviewed regularly this summer, so I'll try
> to
> > be public about what we are learning, so that it will be easier for the
> rest
> > of you.
> >
> > Thanks for your help on this.  It's always frustrating to have to do one
> of
> > these test cycles outside the ones we plan for the summer (and where we
> give
> > a lot more notice), but I think it turns out to be a great opportunity
> for
> > people to learn more about how things work here in a lightweight way.  I
> > appreciate everyone chipping in to make it go quickly and smoothly.
> >
> > Robin
> >
>
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