Live GIS Disc Testing

This wiki describes how to test each application installed in the Live GIS Disc. Each section should contain enough information for an Ubuntu user who is unfamiliar an application to try it out and confirm that everything has been installed correctly.

template

Tests written for

.package. [version], arramgong [version]

Test Description last updated

.date.

Steps

• .action.

Verify that ...

• Eg: From menu, select GeoSpatial->Application->Start

Eg: Verify that a browser opens at url: http://localhost:... and shows the application start page.

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test results from .date.

Run by: FirstName LastName

System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base

Version: distribution version: eg: arramagong 3.0 rc2

Results: Pass, Pass with issues, Fail

• link to bug reports

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Add more test results below, most recent results at the top

deegree

Tests written for

deegree 2.2, arramagong 2.0.1

Test Description last updated

Sep 2009

Steps

• Click desktop icon "start deegree" which will run "catalina.sh start".

Verify firefox is opens a new tab at the page http://localhost:8081/

• Click links in top left box ("deegree Web Applications").

Verify the service links open test pages for WMS, WFS, and WCS with links to "Test WMS", "Test WFS" and "Test WCS".

• Missing step? click on ???

Verify you get either maps or xml fragments.

• Click on the client link (iGeoPortal)

Verify ??? ... will open in a new tab and should open a full working portal after choosing one of the offered WebMapContexts (Utah, SaltLakeCity or Playground).

• Click on the desktop icon "stop deegree"

Verify the deegree-tomcat process is stopped. (How?)

grass

Tests written for

grass 6.4.0rc5, arramagong 2.0

Last updated

Sep 2009

Steps

• Double click on the GRASS desktop icon

Verify you see a slick "Welcome to GRASS" GUI

• Select Spearfish60 for location, User1 for mapset
• Click on [Start Grass]
• In the Layer Manager GUI window add a raster layer
  • On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a checkerboard
  • On map to be displayed pull down the list and select elevation.dem
• from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
• In the Layer Manager GUI window add a vector layer
  • On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a "V" line
  • For input map name pull down the list and select roads from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
• Over in the Map Display window toolbar click on the eyeball icon to render

Verify you see the maps displayed

See also http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToTestGrass6

(North Carolina dataset is already installed in grassdata/)

Main Documentation

• Confirm that Firefox is opened at startup
• Confirm that it opens up at file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.html
• Confirm that the homepage is set to file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.html
• Confirm that you can see descriptions about the different projects.