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[Chad Miller <chad.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just noticed on a recent bug report. I'd like to share my reply to it
> which I sent to social media (Well, PRISM has caused some ructions).
>
> And this an announcement, not an invite to another flame war... I've spent
>> a lot of time trying to encourage chromum (not chrome) to be updated for
>> those who choose to use it. One of the major tasks was for the security
>> updates to be released regularly [done] and for the qa people to have
>> access to the stable daily builds so we can test them before they get
>> released. After a lot of work, and many months of discussions, chromium
>> stable release is now available from a 'standard' (approved) area. So, in
>> answer to those who thought myself, chad and Alex Shkop were sitting around
>> doing nothing....
>> https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
>>
>>
>> and here's the active one....
>> https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/stable
>>
>>
>> If you like testing, use the new ppa :)
>> As a foot note, I'd like to thank Alex for all the work he has done and
>> also thank Chad for his un stinting work on getting chromium back up and
>> running.
>
>

Hi all.  I'm happy to keep chromium building and testable in a public
place, but upstream releases come about every week, and between patch
integration, ARMHF architecture build failures, ARMHF build time, and
#security review and re-build, often the next release has arrived.  People
are already screaming for updates days before QA could even begin to test.
 I value assurance of quality, but I can't wait for long on human testing.

One thing I would like QA help with is automated tests.  I've started some
autopkgtest smoketest and build-time unit testing, but I'd like to have
automated

- simple performance test
- UI translation test for languages that will be patched in from Launchpad
soon (?!)
- integration test with webapps patches and extension
- learning what tests I didn't know to add to this list

I would love some patches or guidance.

lp:~chromium-team/chromium-browser/saucy-working

http://www.chromium.org/developers/testing/browser-tests

- chad