Manual Testing Project Recovery

[sf1919]

You have been assigned manual testing. The hope is to catch as many problems with the code before release, so it would be great if you can take some time to give a serious test to your assigned area. Thank you!!

The general guide to manual testing:

• The tests must be performed on the installer versions of the final release candidate. Not on local compiled code.
• Serious errors involving loss of functionality, crashes etc. should be raised as issues with the current release as a milestone and an email sent to the project manager immediately.
• Minor and cosmetic issues should be raised as issues against the forthcoming releases.
• First try things that should work, then try to break Mantid, e.g. entering invalid values, unexpected characters etc.
• Don't spend more than a few hours on the testing as fatigue will kick in.
• If you find errors in the documentation, please correct them.
• Comment against this ticket the OS environment you are testing against.
• Close the this issue once you are done.

Specific Notes:

http://developer.mantidproject.org/Testing/ErrorReporter-ProjectRecovery/ProjectRecoveryTesting.html

[sf1919]

As we go through the tests when we restart Workbench we're getting at least two recoveries - the last 2 in most cases. A bit confusing!

[sf1919]

In the introduction to the testing it needs to say that you should have the facility set to ISIS.

[sf1919]

Test 4 - The Show Data Dialog does not come back after Project Recovery. The Reflectometry GUI also does not come back. The Engineering Diffraction GUI does come back though so it seems to be something specific to Show Data Table and the Reflectometry GUI.

[sf1919]

First attempt at test 6 and Project Recovery options did not appear. Worked as expected 2nd time we attempted it.

[sf1919]

Test 7 - Like Test 6 we didn't get any options when we restarted and a previous ordered_recovery.py file was showing.

Further investigation shows that the set up we did at the start (how many seconds between saves) did not save because we didn't restart. It would be good to make this clearer in the testing documentation

[sf1919]

Test 8 - the documentation may need updating for this one. By only choosing Only open in script editor then there is no workspace loaded that we can check the history of.

[sf1919]

All relevant issues have been written up and linked to this issue for reference. Testing can now be closed.

[rbauststfc]

Test 4 - The Show Data Dialog does not come back after Project Recovery. The Reflectometry GUI also does not come back. The Engineering Diffraction GUI does come back though so it seems to be something specific to Show Data Table and the Reflectometry GUI.

I've just repeated this test and noticed that actually it worked OK, it's just that on Windows the Reflectometry GUI and Show Data dialog seem to be minimised so I must not have noticed that they were still there. I'll note this on the linked issues that were opened for the problem and close them.