Questions tagged [testing]
Release testing, testing new applications or features, etc.
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How do you test the network speed between two boxes?
I have a gigabit network set up in my house and a few Ubuntu based boxes. Out of complete curiosity I would like to check the speed between the two boxes.
I am not having any problems with speed or ...
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How can I test a shell script in a "safe environment" to avoid harm to my computer?
I'd like to install a certain bash script called 42FileChecker using the commands:
git clone https://github.com/jgigault/42FileChecker ~/42FileChecker &&
cd ~/42FileChecker &&
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How to install specific versions of Google Chrome / Chromium?
I'm looking for standalone packages for Google Chrome / Chromium which can be extracted and used as binaries for my Selenium test suite.
How do I go about such a thing?
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How do I get involved with testing and QA with Ubuntu?
I'd like to get involved with Ubuntu QA by creating automated tests. Is there an ongoing effort to create these tests? Where can I learn more?
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Where can I get the latest Ubuntu Alpha or Beta?
I'd love to test the latest Ubuntu alpha/beta (otherwise known as "Ubuntu+1"), but I can't find it.
Where can I find download for the pre-releases of Ubuntu?
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Testing Ubuntu mobile applications
I'm currently reading a lot about the new Ubuntu mobile (phone) OS, and now I'm wondering if there is the possibility to test applications. I know that QtCreator is the recommended IDE and an emulator ...
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Ubuntu Development version / How to participate, or how to get a smooth ride
Questions about the Ubuntu Development version
Background
AskUbuntu is dedicated to helping users with the current released versions of standard Ubuntu and Ubuntu community flavours (Kubuntu, Lubuntu ....
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Which graphics driver set is better to test in the long run?
So, my computer has a Radeon mobility card and Compiz doesn't seem to want to play nice with it. The nets me a tradeoff: I can use the proprietary drivers and get the boosted performance and take a ...
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How do I contribute an autopilot test?
What is autopilot and how do I contribute to a new autopilot testcase for a package ?
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Where Can I Give Feedback on Ubuntu?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2. Is there a way, or a place, to give feedback on this system? Not file bugs, just give feedback.
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Is burg compatible with 11.04?
Has anybody tested burg on natty? Is it safe?
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How in Bash to test a name/string is an executable
How, on Bash, do we test a name string is an executable, as tried it won't work:
$ [[ -x cp ]] &&echo YES
$
$ [[ -x ls ]] &&echo YES
as tried it hard won't be correct way:
$ >/dev/...
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Howto install google-mock on Ubuntu 12.10
I am having hard time trying to install Google C++ Mocking Framework. I have successfully run sudo apt-get install google-mock. Then I tried to compile this sample file
#include "gmock/gmock.h"
int ...
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Where is the Alpha 1 release of Kubuntu 12.04?
I have been looking around, and I can't find any official informational update on the first Alpha release of Kubuntu Precise. Was Alpha 1 released?
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R & RStudio Installation Script For Ubuntu 18.04: TDD Packages [closed]
I've made an installation for R and R Studio for Ubuntu 18.04. The intention is to have a working R Studio installation with the typical packages used in typical data wrangling. The script is as ...
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How can I refresh/reinstall/clear/set-to-default my bootup process?
I'm currently having a problem with my bootup process that is growing progressively worse as time goes on:
While booting, it does a few minutes of hard-drive reading. During that, instead of showing ...
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How to start fresh Chromium instance?
I am testing web applications. I therefor always need a browser that does not have any cookies, saved logins, etc. Put shortly: a fresh instance.
As we just work with Chromium, I wonder how to start ...
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How to check if checkbox-unity from ppa:unity-team/ppa succesfully send my report?
I used the checkbox-unity survey to test beta unity 5.0 in Precice.
Completing the survey took me a couple of hours because I thoroughly described the problems I discovered. At the end of the survey ...
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Unable to create a flakey file system for testing
In Ubuntu 14.04 when I try:
sudo dmsetup create test --table '0 123 flakey 1 0 /dev/loop0'
(or the delay target), I get an error:
device-mapper: reload ioctl on test failed: Invalid argument
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What is the recomended application set for QA/tester's suite in Ubuntu?
I work in SQA as Test manager/Tester and I want to get more from my Ubuntu desktop. Unfortunately Ubuntu does not have much software in repository for this task. Can you recommend set of Linux ...
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How to install correctly another Linux flavour (in my case PCLinuxOS) together with installed Ubuntu?
Hello everybody and Prosperous and Productive Year 2011 !!!
I have Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) installed on my laptop. I would like to install PCLinuxOS (KDE or LXDE version, I don't know yet) on the same ...
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How can I deploy my local Juju Charm with Amulet framework?
I use amulet as testing framework for charms which we developing. I've already tried to reproduce an example, provided on https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/tools-amulet and it's work fine. But now I'...
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Is there a easy way to test ubuntu on new notebooks before buying it?
Is there an easy way to check a notebook's hardware compatibility with ubuntu before you buy it?
I really don't want to buy a notebook home and find several bugs caused by the hardware.
I know that ...
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Diff between backups: see permissions, group and owner and sym link differences
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Using only the command line, is it possible to tell if a rsync backup (on a NAS) and the original folder tree (on a web server) are exactly the same? I mean in terms of file sizes, ...
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Cross-platform performance testing tool
I want to compare operating systems by performance on my hardware. Is there a cross-platform tool for doing it?
I need results of CPU and graphics performance.
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Voice Recognition
As it was presented in OMG! Ubuntu! a voice recognition tool is being developed and will possible deploy in Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu Desktop.
Although beyond the video shared in youtube I had no more ...
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How to test plymouth via virtual machine?
I am trying to edit my splash screen but its really annoying to restart the computer everytime just to find out it doesn't even work. i read on an article that I can do a virtual machine via ssh but I ...
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How do I contribute an autopkg test to ubuntu?
How do I contribute an autopkg test for a ubuntu package?
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When to report errors during beta testing
I have an amateur question. I've noticed with the 18.04 beta (budgie-flavor) that usually when I have a bug, it's usually fixed with another update. Most of my bugs seemed to be an issue with a delay ...
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What's a good way to mock a remote HTTPS API for unit testing my QML app?
I'm tinkering with a QML app that interacts with a remote REST API over HTTPS. The "client" part of the app is neatly packaged into a component and I'd like to unit test that, but I don't want to ...
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Emulating IE in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install IE9, IE8, or IE7 in ubuntu 12.04.LTS
I need to test my web site in Internet Explorer. Unluckily, I can't move it to Windows and run there. So what is the ...
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Can not update Natty running from a USB stick [closed]
In a blogpost Jono explained a nice way to test the latest version of Natty. Under point four he proposes:
Step 4: Update
Although you installed the latest daily you should ensure it is up to date, ...
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How to provoke a syntax error in the bash shell
I only have 20 % test coverage for my project. https://coveralls.io/github/montao/opsh
I want to add a test for syntax error. I am unable to receive the output "syntax error" from a simple oneliner ...
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How to make a network interface drop a defined percentage of packets
I want to test an application against network outage or defective network. Is there any tool to make an interface defect-prone, or otherwise simulate a poor quality connection? For example, force ...
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Stress testing hardware
Is there a piece of software I can install on my Ubuntu installation (10.04) to stress test all the hardware on my computer? I understand I can download a specific disto to do this, but I would ...
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How can I test a game on Linux within a Windows 10 system?
I'm developing a game in Windows 10, and I'm currently working on a Linux port for it. Yes, you read that correctly.
The only problem I have is how to set up Linux in Windows 10 for testing. I know ...
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Is it necessary to use 'sudo' when doing a '--dry-run' with apt-get?
I am doing tests on packages with the apt-get --dry-run command, however I am not using sudo. Could not using sudo affect the results in some way, or is sudo not necessary for such a simulation?
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Similar to xkill for mir
xkill is a command I almost use everyday. That's because my PC is quite crappy [a 10' chilli GREEN netbook NEO XP made in Holland (even if I'm in Greece), with 1 GB ram memory and 2 Intel Atom cores ...
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Is there a way to backup your package configuration?
For example, if I wanted to help out with trying edge(in this case Quantal), but I wanted to be able to revert to a stable-ish system if some update caused a problem -- how would I accomlish this task?...
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Is it possible to update just the Unity plugin in Compiz to the latest/greatest for testing?
I am currently using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty. Can I update, or upgrade, just the Unity Compiz plugin?
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Will LiveCD test results be aggregated into the laptop testing tracker?
Marco Ceppi's answer to a tangentially related question set me to wondering about the destination of all the tests that users run from the LiveCD menu. There's a fairly comprehensive hardware ...
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Performance issue with fresh install MySQL 5.616-1~exp1 (Ubuntu) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I've recently started on a new company and I'm currently setting my dev environment.
We're using Ubuntu 16.04 and MySQL 5.6
Everything was right until I launched the tests (using mvn test). After ...
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how do I speed test (benchmark) CUDA?
Just installed Nvidia CUDA (Ubuntu 15.04) and I would like to run a speed test to compare GPU use with cuda and without it.
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How to upgrade GNOME to the next unstable development series?
I understand that with GNOME version numbers, you have the odd numbered releases being the unstable in-development series, and the even ones as the stable releases which the odd unstable ones become. ...
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USB Enumeration Stress Test [closed]
I'm creating a USB device that runs my own custom stack, and I need to make sure that it works with any host or hub. USB-IF has their own official testing program, but it only runs on Windows and has ...
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How does one run QML tests on a Ubuntu Touch Phone?
My application has QML tests using QtTests that I run locally on the desktop via qmltestrunner. I am interested in running these tests on the device to simulate real conditions like the on-screen ...
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Windows Installer (Trial Run)
So Windows Installer is like a trial run in my mind from what I see.
It partitions your hard drive so you can use Ubuntu, but Ubuntu relies on Windows remaining on the system, yes?
So I have 2 ...
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Interacting with appindicator icon and menus from LDTP
I'm using LDTP Python API in order to test desktop applications under Ubuntu (Unity shell, Ubuntu 12.04). I can't find if there's any available way to interact with appindicator icon and menus using ...
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How to force Testdrive to use zsync?
While using testdrive gui, how to configure it to use zsync?
There seems to be no option to change that. Or is there a config file somewhere which can be edited?
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How to switch my latest stable Ubuntu installation to the development version?
I've installed ubuntu 20.04, however I'd like to install the development version (to use rolling rhino). Can I upgrade to the development version? or do I need to do a fresh install with the ...