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[Glen Ditchfield <gjditchfield@xxxxxxx>]

When I ran through the Laptop Wireless Network test cases
(http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Hardware/Network/Wireless) I ran into a problem with the test cases themselves: my laptop passed the tests, even though wireless networking on it is useless -- see bug 847215.

The problem is that five pings don't exercise the network hard enough to
turn up this bug. I suggest adding a step that runs "wget --output-
document=/dev/null" to fetch some document, to both the wireless and
cabled network tests.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731737

Title:
  [testcases] Networking / NM Laptop Test section needs a revision

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: network-manager

  It appears that the Networking section for Laptop Testing, http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Plans/LaptopTesting , is outdated and needs to be rewritten by someone who knows what needs to be tested and how. The current test would fail every time as written. There is no longer a computer icon, so that may be an indication of how old this version was testing for. This is the section that will fail:
  Verify Release of Device
  Case ID: hcn-002
      In the terminal, run sudo ifdown [interface] where [interface] is the interface name, above.
    * In the terminal, run ifconfig and verify that only the loopback device ("lo") is listed.*
  There is always at least four devices listed. Apparently a knowledgeable person can tell that the device is up or down but that is not what this question asks for. Someone tell me what we want and I will be glad to rewrite it. If we are looking for a device that is up or down, we need to write that in plain english so anyone can do this. I tried to address this as a question but was recommended that I file a bug.

  1)lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
  Release:	11.04

  2)apt-cache policy pkgname
  N: Unable to locate package pkgname
  Don't know where in the software center this information is.

  3) I expected to test this application and give good, useful,
  feedback.

  4) I could not perform a useful test because of outdated testing
  procedures.

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