R-GMA Test Plan

Service Description

Features/Scenarios to be tested

For each RPM

File layout

• Check that the files in the rpm are in sensible places

APIs

Documentation

• Check for compete HTML documentation
• Check presence and accuracy of the user manual
• Examples should be provided

Functionality testing

• Ensure that example code builds and runs according to the documentation

Command line tool

Documentation

• Check for man page
• Check for internal help system
• Check presence and accuracy of the user manual

Functionality testing

• Check for -h and -v options
• Check that command line completion works as expected
• Check that it is fairly intuitive
• Try to break it
• Run the examples (see help examples) and ensure that output is reasonable

-- SteveFisher - 29-Jan-2010