Welcome to:

OpenSolaris G11n Test Group

Communication

• Email Alias - g11n-test-group@opensolaris.org
• IRC Server - irc.freenode.net, Room: #opensolaris-g11n

How to join g11n test group

• If you are interested and would like to join, simply subscribe to g11n-test-group by filling out this form

OpenSolaris G11n Testing Coverage

Testing is focused on 2 main areas:

• localization (l10n) testing - testing of translated content quality
• internationalization (i18n) testing - testing of i18n readiness of locales available in OpenSolaris
  (e.g. input/output of special national characters, font quality, locale data - sorting, date formats ... )

Areas of Interest:

• Input: input methods and keyboards
• locale data and locales management utilities
• desktop and desktop application testing
• install/upgrade: GUI installation experience including new slim installer testing
• G11n conformance testing: testing without concrete instructions or testcases. Only general guidelines
  and a list of applications are give.

OpenSolaris Binary Distro Testing

OpenSolaris binary distro is being released approx. every half a year. First one OpenSolaris 2008.05 is out since May 2008 and the next ar planned in approximately 6 months release cycle (2008.11, 2009.06., ... Testing this distribution is the main goal for G11n test group, which is planning/executing regular test activities on this project.

• Project Indiana is working towards creating a binary distribution of an operating system built out of the OpenSolaris source code. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on OpenSolaris.org, including those to make the installation experience easier, to modernize the look and feel of OpenSolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a network-based package management system into OpenSolaris. The resulting distribution is a live-CD install image, and is fully permissible to be redistributed by anyone. It will also have the capability for developers to create their own, customized distribution based on Project Indiana.

Project Details See OpenSolaris Binary Distro test activities, plans, test configurations and results at: OpenSolaris Binary Distro Testing Page

Solaris Keyboard Layouts

The goal of this project is to define "Solaris Standard Keyboard Layouts" in cooperation with OS.o User Groups and Open Source Communities from different countries for all languages supported in Solaris.

Project Details See current keyboard layouts in OpenSolaris and detailed project info

Performance Testing and Observability Tools

The goal of this project is to evaluate OpenSolaris G11n Performance, make cross operating system comparison, utf8 vs. legacy locales performance study, and introduce observability tools available in Solaris/OpenSolaris

Project Details See performance testing and observability tools detailed project info

Contribution to OpenSolaris Testing Community

The goal of this project is to contribute g11n automated test into The OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing framework.

Project Details See contribution to opensolaris testing community - detailed project info

Tips & How-to

• Configuring Trusted Extensions on a machine with GUI and fixed IP address

Testing Infrastructure

G11n test group infrastructure currently consists of this twiki site, test case management system (TCM), test repository and storage space for test data:

• twiki site - currently g11n test group pages are hosted on wikis.sun.com. We will move to OpenSolaris.org, once wiki is available there.
• test case management - TCM - for testing purposed, where we need to provide exact instructions, to store results and comments from testing and also to create reports there is a tool available for it called TCM. You can find TCM here. Use guest account to see the tool and existing test cases or request new account by sending an email to g11n-test-group@opensolaris.org or i18n-discuss@opensolaris.org.
• test repository - Our testing IPS repository is reachable at http://pkg.sunvirtuallab.com
• storage space - To store e.g. test data samples, SVR4 test packages or simply any stuff needed for testing, there is some space available for it at sunvirtuallab - you can download test files here.

Links & References

• OpenSolaris Community: Internationalization and Localization - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/int_localization/
• OpenSolaris Community: Testing - http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/
• Prague OpenSolaris Globalization Group Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/sunwg11nprg/