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# Introduction
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This is the organisation wiki for the **openQA Project**.
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The source code is hosted in the [os-autoinst github project](http://github.com/os-autoinst/), especially [openQA itself](http://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA) and the main backend [os-autoinst](http://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst)
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If you are interested in the tests for SUSE/openSUSE products take a look into the [openqatests](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqatests) project.
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# Organisational
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## ticket workflow
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The following ticket statuses are used together and their meaning is explained:
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* *New*: No one has worked on the ticket or no one is feeling responsible for the work on this ticket
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* *In Progress*: Any state between *New* and *Resolved*
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* *Resolved*: The complete work on this issue is done and the according issue is supposed to be fixed as observed (Should be updated together with a link to a merged pull request or also a link to an production openQA showing the effect)
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* *Feedback*: Further work on the ticket is blocked by external dependency or open points. Sometimes also used to ask Assignee about progress on inactivity
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* *Rejected*: The issue is considered invalid, should not be done, is considered out of scope.
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* *Closed*: As this can be set only by administrators it is suggested to not use this status.
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It is good practice to update the status together with a comment about it, e.g. a link to a pull request or a reason for reject.
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## openQA calls
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Currently there are two recurring openQA calls conducted at SUSE on http://jangouts.suse.de/. If there would be more interest from the outside the call could be made on a public platform.
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Both meetings should target to finish in 15 minutes each. If more time is needed, propose to stay in the call with the required subset of attendees.
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**execution**: A regular daily call from Mon-Fri at 1000 CET/CEST
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### "SUSE QA test coordination" call
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**objectives**:
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* Information about important development in openQA backend by backend responsibles
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**execution**: Mon + Wed, at 1030 CET/CEST
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## ticket templates
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You can use these templates to fill in tickets and further improve them with more detail over time. Copy the code block, paste it into a new issue, replace every block marked with "<…>" with your content or delete if not appropriate.
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### defects
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Subject: `<Short description, example: "openQA dies when triggering any Windows ME tests">`
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## observation
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### feature requests
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## User story
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<As a <role>, I want to <do an action>, to <achieve which goal> >
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## further details
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## pull request handling on github
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As a reviewer of pull requests on github for all related repositories, e.g. https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pulls, apply labels in case PRs are open for a longer time and can not be merged so that we keep our backlog clean and know why PRs are blocked.
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* **notready**: Triaged as not ready yet for merging, no (immediate) reaction by the reviewee, e.g. when tests are missing, other scenarios break, only tested for one of SLE/TW
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* **question**: Questions to the reviewee, not answered yet
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## Where to contribute?
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If you want to help openQA development you can take a look into the existing [issues](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/issues). There are also some "always valid" tasks to be working on:
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 * *user story*: As openqa backend as well as test developer I want better test coverage of our projects to reduce technical debt
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 * *acceptance criteria*: test coverage is significantly higher than before
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 * *suggestions*: check current coverage in each individual project (os-autoinst/openQA/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse) and add tests as necessary
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# Use cases
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The following use cases 1-6 have been defined within a SUSE workshop (others have been defined later) to clarify how different actors work with openQA. Some of them are covered already within openQA quite well, some others are stated as motivation for further feature development.
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## Use case 1
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**User:** QA-Project Managment
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**primary actor:** QA Project Manager, QA Team Leads
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**stakeholder:** Directors, VP
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**trigger:** product milestones, providing a daily status
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**user story:** „As a QA project manager I want to check on a daily basis the „openQA Dashboard“ to get a summary/an overall status of the „reviewers results“ in order to take the right actions and prioritize tasks in QA accordingly.“
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## Use case 2
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**User:** openQA-Admin
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**stakeholder:** Qa-Prjmgr, QA-TL, openQA Tech-Lead
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**trigger:** Bugs, features, new testcases
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**user story:** „As an openQA admin I constantly check in the web-UI the system health and I manage its configuration to ensure smooth operation of the tool.“
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## Use case 3
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**User:** QA-Reviewer
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**trigger:** every new build
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**user story:** „As an openQA-Reviewer at any point in time I review on the webpage of openQA the overall status of a build in order to track and find bugs, because I want to find bugs as early as possible and report them.“
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## Use case 4
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**User:** Testcase-Contributor
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**primary actor:** All development teams, Maintenance QA
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**stakeholder:** QA-Reviewer, openQA-Admin, openQA Tech-Lead
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**trigger:** features, new functionality, bugs, new product/package
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**user story:** „As developer when there are new features, new functionality, bugs, new product/package in git I contribute my testcases because I want to ensure good quality submissions and smooth product integration.“
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## Use case 5
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**User:** Release-Mgmt
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**trigger:** Milestones
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**user story:** „As a Release-Manager on a daily basis I check on a dashboard for the product health/build status in order to act early in case of failures and have concrete and current reports.“
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## Use case 6
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**User:** Staging-Admin
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**trigger:** every single submission to projects
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**user story:** „As a Staging-Manager I review the build status of packages with every staged submission to the „staging projects“ in the „staging dashboard“ and the test-status of the pre-integrated fixes, because I want to identify major breakage before integration to the products and provide fast feedback back to the development.“
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**User:** Bug investigator
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**primary actor:** Any bug assignee for openQA observed bugs
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**user story:** „As a developer that has been assigned a bug which has been observed in openQA I can review referenced tests, find a newer and the most recent job in the same scenario, understand what changed since the last successful job, what other jobs show same symptoms to investigate the root cause fast and use openQA for verification of a bug fix.“
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# Glossary
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The following terms are used within the context of openQA:
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 * ***test modules***: an individual test case in a single perl module file, e.g. "sshxterm". If not further specified a test module is denoted with its "short name" equivalent to the filename including the test definition. The "full name" is composed of the *test group* (TBC), which itself is formed by the top-folder of the test module file, and the short name, e.g. "x11-sshxterm" (for x11/sshxterm.pm)
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 * ***test suite***: a collection of *test modules*, e.g. "textmode". All *test modules* within one *test suite* are run serially
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 * ***job***: one run of individual test cases in a row denoted by a unique number for one instance of openQA, e.g. one installation with subsequent testing of applications within gnome
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 * ***test run***: equivalent to *job*
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 * ***test result***: the result of one job, e.g. "passed" with the details of each individual *test module*
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 * ***test step***: the execution of one *test module* within a *job*
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 * ***distri***: a test distribution but also sometimes referring to a *product* (CAUTION: ambiguous, historically a "GNU/Linux distribution"), composed of multiple ***test modules*** in a folder structure that compose ***test suites***, e.g. "opensuse" (test distribution, short for "os-autoinst-distri-opensuse")
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 * ***product***: the main "system under test" (SUT), e.g. "openSUSE"
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 * ***flavor***: a specific variant of a *product* to distinguish differing variants, e.g. "DVD"
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 * ***arch***: an architecture variant of a *product*, e.g. "x86_64"
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 * ***machine***: additional variant of machine, e.g. used for "64bit", "uefi", etc.
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 * ***scenario***: A composition of `<distri>-<version>-<flavor>-<arch>-<test_suite>@<machine>`, e.g. "openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-gnome@64bit", nicknamed *koala*
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 * ***build***: Different versions of a product as tested, can be considered a "sub-version" of *version*, e.g. "Build1234"; CAUTION: ambiguity: either with the prefix "Build" included or not)
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# Thoughts about categorizing test results, issues, states within openQA
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When reviewing test results it is important to distinguish between different causes of "failed tests"
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## Nomenclature
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A common definition about the status of a test regarding the product it tests: "false|true positive|negative" as described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives. "positive|negative" describes the outcome of a test ("positive": PASSED; "negative": FAILED) whereas "false|true" describes the conclusion of the test regarding the presence of issues in the SUT or product in our case ("true": correct reporting; "false": incorrect reporting), e.g. "true negative", test successful, no issues detected and there are no issues, product is working as expected by customer. Another example: Think of testing as of a fire alarm. An alarm (event detector) should only go off (be "positive") *if* there is a fire (event to detect) --> "true positive" whereas *if* there is *no* fire there should be *no* alarm --> "true negative".
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Another common but potentially ambiguous categorization:
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* *broken*: the test is not behaving as expected (Ambiguity: "as expected" by whom?) --> commonly a "false positive", can also be "false negative" but hard to detect
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* *failing*: the test is behaving as expected, but the test output is a fail --> "true positive"
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* *working*: the test is behaving as expected (with no comment regarding the result, though some might ambiguously imply 'result is negative')
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* *passing*: the test is behaving as expected, but the result is a success --> "true negative"
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If in doubt declare a test as "broken". We should review the test and examine if it is behaving as expected.
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Be careful about "positive/negative" as some might also use "positive" to incorrectly denote a passing test (and "negative" for failing test) as an indicator of "working product" not an indicator about "issue present". If you argue what is "used in common speech" think about how "false positive" is used as in "false alarm" --> "positive" == "alarm raised", also see https://narainko.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/understanding-false-positive-and-false-negative/
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### Priorization of work regarding categories
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In this sense development+QA want to accomplish a "true negative" state whenever possible (no issues present, therefore none detected). As QA and test developers we want to prevent "false positives" ("false alarms" declaring a product as broken when it is not but the test failed for other reasons), also known as "type I error" and "false negatives" (a product issue is not catched by tests and might "slip through" QA and at worst is only found by an external outside customer) also known as "type II error". Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors. In the context of openQA and system testing paired with screen matching a "false positive" is much more likely as the tests are very susceptible to subtle variations and changes even if they should be accepted. So when in doubt, create an issue in progress, look at it again, and find that it was a false alarm, rather than wasting more peoples time with INVALID bug reports by believing the product to be broken when it isn't. To quote Richard Brown: "I […] believe this is the route to ongoing improvement - if we have tests which produce such false alarms, then that is a clear indicator that the test needs to be reworked to be less ambiguous, and that IS our job as openQA developers to deal with".
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## Further categorization of statuses, issues and such in testing, especially automatic tests
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To keep it simple I will try to go in steps of deciding if a potential issue is of one of two categories in every step (maybe three) and go further down from there. The degree of further detailing is not limited, i.e. it can be further extended. Naming scheme should follow arabic number (for two levels just 1 and 2) counting schemes added from the right for every additional level of decision step and detail without any separation between the digits, e.g. "1111" for the first type in every level of detail up to level four. Also, I am thinking of giving the fully written form phonetic name to unambiguously identify each on every level as long as not more individual levels are necessary. The alphabet should be reserved for higher levels and higher priority types.
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1212 bugzilla bug exists (NOVEMBER) --> ensure cross-reference, also see rules for 1112 ROMEO
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# Advanced features in openQA
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There are some features in openQA for reviewing test results and common practices. Some of these features are presented here based on the pull requests from github.
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## Show previous results in test results page [gh#538](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/538)
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On a tests result page there is a tab for "previous results" showing the result of test runs in the same scenario. This shows previous builds as well as test runs in the same build. This way you can easily check and compare results from before including any comments, labels, bug references (see next section). This helps to answer questions like "Is this a new issue", "Is it reproducable", "has it been seen in before", "how does the history look like".
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## Link to latest in scenario name [gh#836](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/836)
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## Add 'latest' query route [gh#815](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/815)
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## Add web UI controls to select 20/50/100/400 previous results [gh#744](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/744)
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## Show bug or label icon on overview if labeled [gh#550](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/550)
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Hint: You can also write (or copy-paste) full links to bugs and issues. The links are automatically changed to the shortlinks (e.g. https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/11110 turns into [poo#11110](https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/11110)). Related issue: #11110
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## Show certificate next to builds on overview if all failures are labeled [gh#560](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/560), [gh#1052](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/1052)
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See [online documentation about review badges](http://open.qa/docs/#_review_badges).
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## Allow group overview query by result [gh#531](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/531)
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Example: Add query parameters like `…&result=failed&arch=x86_64` to show only failed for the single architecture selected.
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## Add web UI controls to select more builds in group_overview [gh#804](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/804)
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The query parameter 'limit_builds' allows to show more than the default 10
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builds on demand. Just like we have for configuring previous results, the
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higher number of builds on demand. For this, the limit of days is increased
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Example screenshot:
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![openqa_limit_builds_current_bold](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1693432/17462279/59e344e6-5ca8-11e6-8350-42a0fbb5267d.png)
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## Add more query parameters for configuring last builds [gh#575](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/575)
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By using advanced query parameters in the URLs you can configure the search for builds.
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Higher numbers would yield more complex database queries but can be selected
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for special investigation use cases with the advanced query parameters, e.g. if one wants to get an overview of a longer history.
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This applies to both the index dashboard and group overview page.
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Example to show up to three week old builds instead of the default two weeks
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    http://openqa/group_overview/1?time_limit_days=21&limit_builds=20
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## Build tagging and keeping important builds [gh#591](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/591)
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See [online documentation about build tagging](http://open.qa/docs/#_build_tagging).
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## Add web UI controls to filter only tagged or all builds [gh#807](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/807)
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Using a new query parameter 'only_tagged=[0|1]' the list can be filtered, e.g. show only tagged (important) builds.
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![openqa_limit_builds_current_bold_and_only_tagged](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1693432/17464792/49bb6b18-5ce7-11e6-8053-7b74faf193a7.png)
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## Carry over bugrefs from previous jobs in same scenario if still failing [gh#564](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/564)
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It is possible to label all failing tests but tedious to do by a human user
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as many failures are just having the same issue until it gets fixed.
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It helps if a label is preserved for a build that is still failing. This
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idea is inspired by
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https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Claim+plugin
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and has been activated for bugrefs.
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Does not carry over bugrefs over passes: After a job passed a new issue in a subsequent fail is assumed to be failed
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for a different reason.
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## Distinguish product and test issues bugref [gh#708](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/708)
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"progress" is used to track test issues, bugzilla for product issues, at least for SUSE/openSUSE. openQA bugrefs distinguish this and show corresponding icons
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![different_bug_icons](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1693432/15814910/e4e74bf6-2bc9-11e6-83de-20f18a7494de.png)
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## Pinning comments as group description
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This is possible by adding the keyword `pinned-description` anywhere in a comment on the group overview page. Then the comment will be shown at the top of the group overview page. However, it only works as operator or admin.
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## Filtering test results in test result overview
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At the top of the test results overview page is a form which allows filtering tests by result, architecture and TODO-status.
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![screenshot_20160909_130610](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10248953/18385016/3f966b36-768e-11e6-8ee3-fa48dcd0d31d.png)
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## Proposals for uses of labels
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With [Show bug or label icon on overview if labeled (gh#550)](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/550) it is possible to add custom labels just by writing them. Nevertheless, a convention should be found for a common benefit. <del>Beware that labels are also automatically carried over with (Carry over labels from previous jobs in same scenario if still failing [gh#564])(https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/564) which might make consistent test failures less visible when reviewers only look for test results without labels or bugrefs.</del> Labels are not anymore automatically carried over ([gh#1071](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/1071)).
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List of proposed labels with their meaning and where they could be applied.
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* ***`fixed_<build_ref>`***: If a test failure is already fixed in a more recent build and no bug reference is known, use this label together with a reference to a more recent passed test run in the same scenario. Useful for reviewing older builds. Example (https://openqa.suse.de/tests/382518#comments):
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* ***`needles_added`***: In case needles were missing for test changes or expected product changes caused needle matching to fail, use this label with a reference to the test PR or a proper reasoning why the needles were missing and how you added them. Example (https://openqa.suse.de/tests/388521#comments):
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