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UID:pretalx-postmarketos-conference-2026-AJD9LX@pretalx.postmarketos.org
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DESCRIPTION:Despite the long-term trend to automate tests as much as possib
 le\, software developers are faced with the reality where this is theoreti
 cally possible but practically hard to achieve. One good example is the Mo
 bile Linux distribution postmarketOS\, where pre-release testing is conduc
 ted manually by device maintainers and the project's community. Promising 
 efforts to automate the process have seen work and remarkable progress for
  years\, yet\, it is unlikely that they will effectively close all gaps\, 
 obsoleting the need for manual testing.\n\nA key challenge for manual test
 ing is the management of the process. Testers need proper guidance by well
 -designed test plans while developers and release managers need meaningful
  testing reports. While several tools exist for this purpose\, most are to
 o complicated and too heavy-weight for community projects. With KiwiTCMS a
 nd SystemTestPortal two open source systems are available that were design
 ed to fill this gap. However\, like any server-based system\, employing th
 ese systems requires infrastructure setup and maintenance.\n\nThis talk pr
 esents the conceptual idea of "SystemTestPortal Lite"\, an alternative to 
 SystemTestPortal that runs completely in the web browser without the need 
 to install or operate services. Instead\, projects only need to provide da
 ta files with the test plans in their repositories. Test reports can be up
 loaded as files to issue trackers or the repositories so they can be aggre
 gated before release decisions are made.
DTSTAMP:20260907T234221Z
LOCATION:5053.1 (Großer B-IT Raum)
SUMMARY:Manual Testing in 2026? Yes\, seriously! - Daniel Kulesz
URL:https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/talk/AJD9
 LX/
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