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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:48:18 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "John Keiffer" <john.keiffer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Erik Palomba" <erik.palomba@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: DST test cases
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Hi John,

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.

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.

The changes are in the Lambo (2.2) release.

Please let me know if you have any further questions,

Cheers,

a



On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:10:19 -0800 "John Keiffer"
<john.keiffer@onstor.com> wrote:

> Hello Andy,
> 
>  
> 
> 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...
> 
> 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."
> 
> 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.
> 
> Also, are these changes already checked into Lambo, or are they
> expected to hit a certain submittal?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> John Keiffer
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
