Kontact Test Plan

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To improve testing for KDE Kontact a new test plan package was created. The package contains:

the free test framework "inTEsts"
test suites (with tests for KDE Kontact)

1 Test Framewok "inTEsts"
2 Test suites (with tests for KDE Kontact)
- 2.1 Download
- 2.2 License

Test Framewok "inTEsts"

interactive-tests (inTEsts) is a free python based test framework. It helps testers to fill out testplans with a simple web server and also is capable to produce latex and PDF files.

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Download

inTEsts version 0.1 (2008-11-11)

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Requirements

Python 2.4
4Suite
optional: GNU make and a LaTex installation

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Installation

Debian 4.0 Etch:

# apt-get install python python-4suite

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Usage

Generating LaTeX:

# Any XSLT 1.1 compatible processor should do.
$ xsltproc xforms/xml2tex.xsl demo/demo.xml > tex/demo.tex

Generating PDF from LaTex:

$ (cd tex && make demo.pdf)

Using the builtin web server:

$ cp demo/demo.xml demo.xml # make a working copy
$ python main.py demo.xml   # to start on localhost port 8080
$ python main.py demo.xml 6666 # to start on localhost port 6666

Point your browser to http://localhost:8080

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License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3

The development of this software is driven by Intevation GmbH, member of the Kolab Konsortium that also develops the Kolab Server.

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Test suites (with tests for KDE Kontact)

The Kontact-testplan 0.3.2 (available in PDF and XML format) contains the following 7 test suits for KDE Kontact:

Mail
Calendar
Contacts
Summary
To-do
Notes
Crypto

Total tests: 55

The XML based test plan is created for the test framework "inTEsts" (see above).

The Kolab community has the possibility to edit and publish new versions of the testplan xml document on this wiki page. Thanks for your translations and improvements!

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