Re: [lmi] Manual test of automated GUI test

[Boutin, Wendy]

Greg Chicares wrote: 
> On 2014-10-19 00:32Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:02:50 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]

> > GC> There must be a 'configurable_settings.xml' file somewhere, but
> > GC> /etc/opt/lmi/ = "C:\etc\opt\lmi" is only the first location inspected.
> >
> >  Yes, I'm aware about this, but I thought the point of this test was to
> > check for its existence at this particular location. Especially as it was
> > the very first item of the test specification, quoting Wendy's email from
> > 2013-11-13T14:51:30Z:
> >
> >>    [Specifications begin]
> >>
> >>    1. Inspect 'configurable_settings.xml' for the following:
> >>
> >>      A. The file exists in '/etc/opt/lmi'
> 
> Here, I'll have to defer to Wendy or Kim. This may be an actual
> requirement for assembling a distribution; I don't know.

Yes, it's a requirement for distributions. Our installation files put that
file in '/etc/opt/lmi'.

> > GC> I normally don't have a copy in /etc (as noted in this makefile 
> > comment):
> >
> >  To be honest, neither did I, before I started working on this. But I had
> > to create a copy there just to allow this test to pass locally. I could,
> > and would probably be glad to, to relax this test and just check that the
> > configurable settings file is available somewhere where it can be found.
> > But, to be honest, I don't really see the point of this test then as the
> > absence of configurable_settings.xml would result in a fatal error anyhow,
> > whether we test for it explicitly or not.
> 
> Yes, exactly.
>
> >  To summarize, I'm not sure what am I supposed to do here? Modify the test?
> > Remove it entirely? Something else?

I think this is really just tests that the installation file put 
'configurable_settings.xml' in the right location, which is where
all users will have it installed. Kim may be able to say if I got
that wrong, though.




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