QA

Resources and assets for Ubuntu MATE quality assurance testers.

The goal of this project is to facilitate comprehensive test coverage of Ubuntu MATE and MATE Desktop user-exposed software components.

Way to test all applications with *.desktop-files

There is a special script named launch-all-desktop-apps.sh, it is located at manual-tests/launch-all-desktop-apps.sh.

It was designed to run all applications which have *.desktop-files and are not hidden. The script runs each application and allows user to watch ~/.xsession-errors log file in the same terminal.

Possible workflow for the script is the following:

1. user downloads latest daily Ubuntu MATE ISO file to run it in live or in installed variant;
2. opens terminal and runs this script to detect anomalies of programs, their behavior and ~/.xsession-errors log usage;
3. depending on the results user proceed with bug sorting or reporting new ones.

List of manual tests

Origin	Application name from *.desktop file	Ubuntu package name	Link to test	Executables under test	Executables without tests
MATE	About MATE	mate-desktop	test	mate-about	—
MATE	About Me	mate-control-center	test	mate-about-me	—
MATE	Atril	atril	test	atril, caja-sendto, atril-previewer , atril-thumbnailer	—
MATE and 3rd-party	Caja	caja, caja-dropbox, caja-share, caja-extensions (deb-src package), python-caja (deb-src package)	test	caja, caja-actions-config-tool , caja-connect-server , caja-dropbox,  caja-dropbox-autostart, caja-file-management-properties , caja-sendto, TODO	TODO — caja-autorun-software
MATE	MATE Eiciel	caja-eiciel	TODO
MATE	MATE Calculator	mate-calc	test	mate-calc, mate-calc-cmd, mate-calculator	—
MATE	MATE Color Selection	mate-desktop	test	mate-color-select	—
MATE	MATE Control Center	mate-control-center	test	mate-control-center, mate-appearance-properties, mozo (from mozo package), mate-at-properties, mate-default-applications-properties	TODO  — mate-display-properties, mate-keybinding-properties, mate-keyboard-properties, mate-mouse-properties, mate-network-properties, mate-time-admin, mate-typing-monitor, mate-window-properties, mate-volume-control (from mate-media package), mate-thumbnail-font, software-properties-gtk (from software-properties-gtk package), orca (from orca package), nm-applet  (from network-manager-gnome)
MATE	MATE Disk Image Mounter	mate-utils	test	mate-disk-image-mounter	—
MATE	MATE Disk Usage Analyzer	mate-utils	test	mate-disk-usage-analyzer	—
MATE	Eye of MATE	eom	test	eom	—
MATE	Marco	marco	test	marco, marco-message, marco-theme-viewer, marco-window-demo	—
MATE	MATE Font Viewer	mate-control-center	test	mate-font-viewer	—
MATE	Main Menu	mozo	test	mozo	—
MATE	Popup Notifications	mate-notification-daemon	test	mate-notification-properties	—
MATE	Panel	mate-panel	test	mate-panel, mate-panel-screenshot, mate-panel-test-applets , applets from mate-applets package	TODO — mate-desktop-item-edit, mate-cpufreq-selector (from mate-applets package)
MATE	Power Management, Power Statistics	mate-power-manager	test	mate-power-preferences, mate-power-statistics	mate-power-manager
MATE	Startup Applications	mate-session-manager	test	mate-session-properties	TODO — mate-session, mate-session-inhibit, mate-session-save, mate-wm
MATE	MATE Terminal	mate-terminal	test	mate-terminal	mate-terminal.wrapper
MATE	Pluma	pluma	test	pluma	—
Ubuntu MATE	MATE Tweak	mate-tweak	test	mate-tweak, tilda, marco, compton, compiz	TODO — marco-compton, marco-no-composite
MATE	Engrampa Archive Manager	engrampa	TODO
MATE	Sound	mate-media	TODO	mate-volume-control, mate-volume-control-status-icon
MATE	NVIDIA Optimus	mate-optimus	TODO	mate-optimus-applet, offload-glx, offload-vulkan
MATE	Screensaver	mate-screensaver	TODO	mate-screensaver-preferences, mate-screensaver, mate-screensaver-command
MATE	MATE Settings Daemon (autostart)	mate-settings-daemon	TODO	mate-settings-daemon, msd-datetime-mechanism, msd-locate-pointer
MATE	MATE System Monitor	mate-system-monitor	TODO	mate-system-monitor
MATE	Help	mate-user-guide	TODO
MATE	Personal File Sharing	mate-user-share	TODO	mate-file-share-properties
MATE	MATE Dictionary	mate-utils	TODO	mate-dictionary
MATE	Log File Viewer	mate-utils	TODO	mate-system-log
MATE	Take Screenshot	mate-utils	TODO	mate-screenshot
MATE	MATE Search Tool	mate-utils	TODO	mate-search-tool
Ubuntu MATE		mate-hud	TODO
Ubuntu MATE		mate-menu	TODO
Ubuntu MATE	Ubuntu MATE Guide	ubuntu-mate-guide	TODO
Ubuntu MATE	Welcome	ubuntu-mate-welcome Snap	TODO
Ubuntu MATE	Software Boutique	software-boutique Snap	TODO

Note: table editing goes better with Mark Text Markdown editor.

TODO

• MATE Indicator Applet (mate-indicator-applet package)
• mate-menus package
• mate-netbook package (mate-maximus)
• mate-sensors-applet package
• Various without desktop-file
  • mate-doc-common
  • mate-menu
  • mate-open
  • mate-polkit
  • /usr/lib/ubuntu-mate/ubuntu-mate-settings-overlay
  • /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1
  • mate-autogen

Components from third parties used in Ubuntu MATE

• robint99/mate-dock-applet
• IKRadulov/mate-window-applets
• solus-project/brisk-menu
• ? Compton
• ? Compiz
• ? Probably Others...