My testing activities in RaringRingtail

This was a very interesting cycle and the first time when my name appears in the official credits for testing and BugReporters, where I have the chance to learn a lot! (literally) and work with an amazing team: The Quality-Team. In this cycle I also worked especially with Test-cases and iso-testing (Ubuntu/Lubuntu in amd64 architectures)

But I did another interesting things in this cycle!

1- I have participated as instructor in the Testing-Sessions with a small session about Testing on your laptop https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom

2- I have made several interesting material for this cycle in Spanish: A guide about fixing bugs and work with bazaar http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/solucionando-bugs-en-ubuntu-fixing-bugs-in-ubuntu-only-in-spanish/

3- A video about HowTo Start with Autopilot http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/getting-started-with-autopilot-in-spanish-video/

Buy not everything was about Ubuntu, I also helped to Kubuntu project doing testing, especially in the Ubuntu Global Jam: http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/lubuntu-are-you-an-alternate-tester-help-us/

Ubucon Latinamerica 2013 will be in Uruguay!

Hi everybody!

This is the time for talk about one of the best events in LatinAmerica! Ubucon-LA in this opportunity Uruguay will be our house and Ubuntu-uy team our hosts, and I want to start saying thanks a lot Ubuntu-uy to bring this huge event to us in this edition.

Last year we had some words from Mark Shuttleworth

You can join us and be part of one of the biggest events in LatinAmerica! and remember you can find a lot of information about this event in its official web site: http://www.ubuconla.org/

Solucionando Bugs en Ubuntu – Fixing Bugs in Ubuntu (only in Spanish)

Firstly I would like to dedicate this post to AndresRodriguez Nicholas Skaggs Phill Whiteside Howard Chan and all the Ubuntu Quality Team (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testing)

In this small post, I’m going to explain some necessary steps for fixing bugs in Ubuntu or any project in Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/)

Me gustaría antes que todo dedicar este post a AndresRodriguez Nicholas Skaggs Phill Whiteside Howard Chan y a todo el equipo de calidad de Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testing)

En este pequeño post voy a explicar rápidamente los pasos necesarios para solucionar un bug en Ubuntu o en cualquiera de los proyectos alojados en Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/)

1- Buscamos un bug sobre el cual vamos a trabajar, para este ejemplo trabajamos sobre el bug#1162057, también podemos trabajar sobre un bug reportado por nosotros mismos. Una vez nos ubicamos en la dirección del bug podemos revisar mucha información que nos ayudará a encontrar un solución.

En la primera linea podemos ver a que paquete pertenece el bug (Affects), el estado actual del bug (Status), la importancia del bug para el proyecto (Importance), La persona asignada a resolver el bug (Assigned to) y el Milestone

Luego nos encontramos con la descripción del bug (Bug Description), esta información es agregada por la persona que ha reportado el bug y es nuestra principal fuente de datos técnicos para poder resolver el bug.

Pagina asociada a un bug en Launchpad

2- En este punto ya hemos decidio que vamos a trabajar en este bug, el siguiente paso será confirmar que en verdad es un bug… para esto procedemos a replicar el bug. Aquí logramos reproducir el bug simplemente ejecutando la aplicación… como se puede ver es algo muy evidente.

Acto seguido podemos cambiar el estado a Confirmado (Confirmed), pero no nos detendremos allí, si pasado algún tiempo nadie adopta el bug (otra forma de decir trabajar en el) pues lo tomaremos cambiando el estado a En Proceso (In Progress) en este punto podremos modificar la asignación; si somos muy habilidosos y manejamos muy bien la plataforma lo podemos asignar a nosotros mismos sino asignamos a alguien que nos ayude en la revisión. Esta persona será la encargada de revisar nuestra solución y a futuro marcará el bug como solucionado.

3- Ahora nos dedicaremos a buscar una solución, para este bug revisamos los repositorios donde se obtienen las imágenes iso, allí se ve que se hay dos entradas por cada versión, algo que es muy nuevo y posiblemente es el problema.

Con el posible problema ya identificado procedemos a obtener el código fuente de la aplicación para empezar las pruebas, esto lo realizamos vía Bazaar bzr por terminal (hay herramientas gráficas como el bazaar explorer que se puede usar para este mismo fin).

Con el uso del comando bzr branch obtenemos el código fuente del proyecto en la localización donde nos encontramos! en mi caso /home… en este paso si ya toca aplicar mucho instinto y consultar a los maintainers del proyecto por si se tienen algunas dudas.

—Nos tomamos unos días para hacer las respectivas ediciones al código y revisiones del funcionamiento del código.—

Una vez terminada la edición puedes consultar tus cambios mediante el uso del comando bzr diff, cabe anotar que debes estar dentro del directorio del proyecto

4- Teniendo ya la solución aplicada en el codigo fuente procedemos a subir nuestros cambios realizados al proyecto, primero agregamos un mensaje acerca de nuestra mejora, esto se locgra con el comando bzr commit -m “aquí va el mensaje de nuestra mejora“, luego procedemos a subir nuestro código y aquí hay algo interesante y es que no vamos a subir el código directamente al proyecto ya que eso solo lo hacen los maintainers del proyecto, así que nuestros cambios iran a nuestro perfil de launchpad y se vincularán con una referencia del proyecto, esto se logra con la siguiente nomenclatura: bzr push lp:~usuario_launchpad/proyecto/tu_mejora donde tu_mejora es un nombre representativo a las novedades de tu código.

5- En el paso anterior subimos el código de la mejora a launchpad, ahora nos dirigimos a su sitio web, donde podremos enlazarlo al bug al cual vamos a implementar la mejora y aquí lo proponemos para merging. cuando se propone para merging uno de los maintainers del proyecto deberá verificarlo.

6-Una vez el maintainer del paquete o la aplicación aprueba tu mejora, ya es solo tiempo para verla en acción. En algunas aplicaciones este lanzamiento de mejoras puede demorar mas que en otras, pero al final tengan la seguridad que serán publicadas… Y así podemos ver a TestDrive funcionando normalmente y descargando isos como siempre

Espero que este pequeño post les sea muy útil y mas personas se animen a contribuir a un proyecto de software libre o al mismo Ubuntu! Estamos en contacto

Ubuntu Global Jam – Day3

I worked with applications, bugs and test-cases in the last day of the UGJ. In this opportunity we have a great and very productive Jam, I share with you the applications list tested:

1- Deja-dup
2- Firefox
3- File Roller
4- Gnome-Screenshot
5- Network Manager
6- Ubuntu-One

Besides, I am at the top of the testers list ( A big accomplishment for me )

Top Application testers

Remember, if you want to be part of the UGJ, you will find information about testing procedures in our wiki pages, the official wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam

And the Ubuntu QA team wiki page for UGJ:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam

Ubuntu Global Jam – Day 2

UGJ day2 was dedicated to test the Ubuntu normal version (amd64) and the native applications.

Have a nice Jam!

Daily Iso Tests:
1- Ubuntu amd64 (entire disk)
2- Ubuntu amd64 (Manual partitioning)
3- Live Session

Ubuntu Iso testers

Application Tests:
1- Empathy
2- Gnome-Terminal
3- Eye of Gnome
4- Totem
5- Evince

Application Testers

 

Remember, if you want to be part of the UGJ, you will find information about testing procedures in our wiki pages, the official wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam

And the Ubuntu QA team wiki page for UGJ:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam

 

Ubuntu Global Jam – Day 1

I’ve downloaded all isos that I shall need this weekend: Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Ubuntu (of course!). By different reasons I only could work last night but it isn’t matter, last night was Lubuntu Testing night! \o/

I’ve tested Lubuntu (amd64 – normal and alternate versions) And for my big surprise, Lubuntu isos worked too perfect I hope this day will be more productive and I can work on testing applications and Ubuntu testing as well.

Remember, if you want to be part of the UGJ, you will find information about testing procedures in our wiki pages, the official wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam

And the Ubuntu QA team wiki page for UGJ:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam

Lubuntu: Are you an alternate tester?… Help us :)

Hi guys!

As you know Ubuntu Global jam is coming! And Lubuntu needs help from all us

What is Lubuntu?
Lubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu that is lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.  more information the official page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

I am a tester! What do I have to do?
Firstly, you need to get Lubuntu isos and you can find them here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/243/builds we need test all our isos but especially our Alternates, so take an hour and help us to make Lubuntu better

I am not a Tester, but I want to to help
If this is your first iso-testing day, don’t worry! all information about the process is in this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough

Remember, if you have any question or you want to have a nice time, you can find us in #ubuntu-quality  on Freenode

Getting Started with Autopilot in Spanish [video]

Hi folks!

In this cycle I’m working with the Ubuntu QA and yesterday I had a nice talk with Nicolas (balloons) about autopilot , so I’m getting started to work with Autopilot and I had the idea to do something about autopilot in Spanish (there is not documentation about it in Spanish now), and is there something more great than a video? I guess not

So I took the chance and I have made a short video about “Getting Started with Autopilot”, it is not nothing big, but I think it might be help to some Spanish contributors.

I have noticed that in the planet doesn’t appear the video preview, so I let the direct link here: http://youtu.be/jRER_Uj7h_I

I let some references to Autopilot and its documentation:

• Nicolas’ Blog: http://www.theorangenotebook.com/
• Ask Ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/233219/how-do-i-contribute-an-autopilot-test
• Unity Documentation: http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/

Playing World Of Warcraft with Ubuntu

This week I had the chance to play World Of Warcraft  (wow) Mist of Pandarian, I have played it before but the performance was not the best or I had to do a lot of things to get a good configuration and performance.

So when the new expansion arrived, I was prepared to work a lot for trying to configure wine, winetricks,  config.wtf (file of wow) and even more… but my big surprise when I only have to change the video support to OpenGL and a small configuration in Wine and thats all!!!

 

WoW running on Ubuntu 12.04

 

If you have the game in your computer, just move the game folder to your Ubuntu partition (/home/YourUser/wow). Once here you have to edit the file called “Config.wtf”, adding the line:

SET gxApi “opengl”

About Wine the only tip that I can share is: change the configuration to work emulating win7… and thats all! now you are ready to play without any problem!  by the way: I have better performance than using win7 as operative system.

 

Ready to Play!

 

You can find more information about install wow on ubuntu in the following links:

http://www.guia-ubuntu.org/index.php?title=World_of_Warcraft

http://www.nireleku.com/2011/08/como-instalar-world-of-warcraft-en-ubuntu-11-04/

 

My First Ubuntu Developer Summit UDS-R

I had the chance to be part of this Ubuntu Developer Summit UDS-R, it was my first UDS and I was really excited about the idea of meet a lot of people, especially the LoCo Council and Mark.

But socialize was not the only thing I did, I had time to talk about community especially with Daniel Holbach and Chris Crisafully, and I saw how some projects are working, besides a lot of news: Steam, Nexus7, Android, Community even more!

¿What was the most impressive thing of the UDS for me?

I think, it was the possibility of working with people from all the world in person, meet different cultures, see different points of view and share the conclusions… It is the most powerful tool of Ubuntu in action: The Community

You can see my photo gallery about the UDS here, special thanks to Chris Crisafully for some photos