Release Testing #333
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Is there a standardized set of laptops and servers used for release testing? |
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I can only speak for myself but yes I have about ten laptops and eight PCs but no servers used for release testing ranging in vintage from 2008-2022, 32 & 64 bit. I also test nwipe on Arm on Ubuntu but I don't currently build ShredOS for Arm. There are others that run servers and build from source. The unreleased master code is always available for testing and it's expected by it's nature of being open source that people do build from source and submit PR's or at least issues if things don't work and they are not programmers. If no PRs are submitted and the code passes on all my test systems it gets released. Of course twenty test systems are a drop in the ocean compared to the possible number of systems, chipsets, combinations and umpteen bios versions which probably runs into hundreds of thousands if not millions of possible combinations. Whether ShredOS works on all hardware is mainly down to the Linux kernel and all the supporting drivers of which we have little control over. Are you offering to help out by building from source and testing on your systems? Testing can be really time consuming when you are testing on real world hardware rather than loop devices so any help is always welcome. Rather than just problems I would like to also see systems with no problems, a sort of go/no go list of systems. Otherwise, when you only hear about the problem systems, you get a skewed negative view of things. |
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Thank you for your quick response! I built from source and found that Dell, HP, and Lenovo laptops shred well without any issues. However, the Microsoft Surface and Apple MacBook models seem to be more hit or miss. My sample size is similar to yours, so it's a bit challenging to draw any definitive conclusions at this point. I would be happy to share my final set of results when my project is complete. |
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I also test on a Apple Macbook, but not on a Microsoft Surface. |
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I can only speak for myself but yes I have about ten laptops and eight PCs but no servers used for release testing ranging in vintage from 2008-2022, 32 & 64 bit. I also test nwipe on Arm on Ubuntu but I don't currently build ShredOS for Arm. There are others that run servers and build from source. The unreleased master code is always available for testing and it's expected by it's nature of being open source that people do build from source and submit PR's or at least issues if things don't work and they are not programmers. If no PRs are submitted and the code passes on all my test systems it gets released. O…