[lsb-discuss] Printer/driver testing and certification

Banginwar, Rajesh rajesh.banginwar at intel.com
Fri Aug 18 09:06:34 PDT 2006


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>One of the outcomes of the Printing Summit in Atlanta in April was that
>we should have a common, distribution-independent printer testing and
>certification program, so that one can say "This printer works with
>Linux/any LSB-compliant OS" instead of "This printer works with Red Hat,
>SuSE, ...".

This is an excellent idea. Since all printer drivers are in user space, I would really like to see this turned into: **All LSB certified printer drivers will work on all LSB certified distros**. 

What do you think? Instead of creating a separate certification program, we should use the existing brand and certification program that is well suited for this. The planned tests can certainly become part of LSB printer driver certification test suite. Similarly we should be developing tests for distros from printing point of view.

Thanks,

-Rajesh


>
>François Déchelle works in the EDOS research project
>(http://www.edos-project.org/) on automated testing methods. He suggests
>to implement an automated testing for printer drivers, so that it is
>assured that all printers reported to be supported by a distribution or
>by linuxprinting.org (as soon as LSB-compliant distribution-independent
>driver packages are posted there) will really work.
>
>The testing should assure that all drivers are present and in a working
>state, so that printers tested and reported as working (or even
>certified) really work.
>
>We talked about the testing method and our ideas are as follows:
>
>- Loop through all available printer driver combos
>   o On a CUPS 1.2.x distro or a distro with all PPDs pre-built in
>     /usr/share/ps/model/ (like SuSE) for example through all PPDs
>     listed by "lpinfo -m"
>   o On a distro with installed foomatic through all entries listed
>     by "foomatic-configure -O" (or by pre-building all PPDs with
>     "foomatic-compiledb").
>   o In the future I hope there will be a standard method ...
>   o On linuxprinting.org by looping through all shown printer/driver
>     pairs
>
>- Create a CUPS queue with each PPD found (not all queues must be there
>  at the same time, one can make one, test it, delete it, make the
>  next). The queue should point into a file and CUPS should be in debug
>  mode.
>
>- Print test jobs into the queue and examine the logs (GhostScript
>  errors? Command not found? ...) and the output files (Too small ?
>  ...). Report any problems in a log.
>
>- Remove the queue and go on with the next driver.
>
>The test should be written in a way that it works on all
>(LSB-compliant?) distributions so that the printing support can be
>easily checked.
>
>Later on, when distribution-independent driver packages are posted on
>linuxprinting.org (so that printer setup tools in distros can load new
>drivers automatically from there) the test should also be run over
>linuxprinting.org.
>
>This way it should be assured that when a printer is listed as supported
>that it simply works.
>
>François Déchelle wants to implement the test scripts.
>
>   Till
>
>
>P. S.: François Déchelle os also organizing an EDOS meeting here in
>Paris: http://www.edos-project.org/xwiki/bin/Main/WP3_Workshop_200609
>
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