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Subject: RE: DST test cases
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:30:12 -0800
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From: "John Keiffer" <john.keiffer@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: "Erik Palomba" <erik.palomba@onstor.com>

Yo a,

My manager would rather send me to Latvastonia...

Since this is going to be a mandatory release, I guess it should be
tested for Japan as well right? (I think we have filers there)

"Asia Most states of the former USSR.  	Start: Last Sunday in March
							End: Last Sunday
in October"

These dates are different from the US. If I set the time zone to
"Asia/Tokyo", will it work with the above dates instead?

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:03 PM
To: John Keiffer
Cc: Erik Palomba
Subject: Re: DST test cases

Sounds good to me.  You might want to pick just one or two.  I would
pick Hawaii and Virgin Islands.  Make sure to tell your boss that you
really have to go there to properly test it.

Cheers,

a


On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:34:44 -0800 "John Keiffer"
<john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
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> I got this from the reference web site:
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> "Some U.S. areas
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> For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed
> in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and
> Arizona."
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> Do I need to test that DST shouldn't work in these?
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> Thanks,
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:48 AM
> To: John Keiffer
> Cc: Erik Palomba
> Subject: Re: DST test cases
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> Hi John,
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> I'm not sure what the purpose of checking for certain files would be,
> but I'm not a QA specialist, so I'm probably not the authority on
> that.  The section 3 comment is to dev engineering, and I don't know
> how you would have a generic test for this.  Think of it as a
> database, where the data changes very slowly, like hardly at all even
> once a year.  And most of those changes are for strange out-of-the-way
> countries like Paraguay (is there such a country?) or Latvastonia.
> I'm kidding, there's no country by that name.
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> Really, all I would do is functional testing that the DST reported
> time conforms with the "rules" as I mentioned in the spec.  You might
> want to do slightly more comprehensive testing than I did, for
> instance, you may want to try the test for a couple of different time
> zones, like EST an maybe one of the central timezones, in addition to
> PST, and make sure that the time changes in the right way at the
> right time.
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> The changes are in the Lambo (2.2) release.
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> Please let me know if you have any further questions,
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> Cheers,
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> a
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> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:10:19 -0800 "John Keiffer"
> <john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:
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> > Hello Andy,
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> > =20
> >=20
> > I've been tasked with writing some test cases for the DST code
> > changes. I have read the Functional Spec. I was wondering if it
> > would be useful to know what the referenced data files are, and
> > where they are found on the filer...
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> > specifically in section 3: "A general effort should be made at least
> > once a year to integrate the most up-to-date versions of these data
> > files."
> >=20
> > Erik also mentioned that there may be some file or files that should
> > be checked during testing. Is this what you are alluding to in the
> > above statement? I would like to know which specific files and their
> > location, which I should focus on during my test case writing.
> >=20
> > Also, are these changes already checked into Lambo, or are they
> > expected to hit a certain submittal?
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> > Thank you,
> >=20
> > John Keiffer
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> > =20
> >=20
> > =20
> >=20
