2.12.10 Test Plan

2.12.10 QA Checklist

For both upgrades and fresh installs, here is a list of functionality that requires testing. You can use this for copy/pasting into your QA report.

This release is Tails-only, enabling the migration from Tails 6 to 7 - no server installs are required.

Environment

• Install target:
• Tails version:
• Test Scenario:
  • Migration from Tails 6
  • Fresh install on Tails 7
• SSH over Tor:
• Release candidate:
• General notes:

2.12.10 release-specific changes

Test plan

Migration from Tails 6:

• On an admin workstation, check out the latest RC (cd ~/Persistent/securedrop && git fetch && git checkout <latest RC tag>:
  • Confirm that ./securedrop-admin and its subcommands display an error that indicates the user has to run the tool on Tails 7
• Check out 2.12.9:
  • Smoke test that ./securedrop-admin subcommands work again (change is reversible)
• Check out the latest RC again.
• Back up the Persistent Volume (PV)
• Create a fresh Tails 7 stick and restore the PV to it
• Do a manual update via the following commands:
  • sudo apt update && ./securedrop-admin setup - confirm that the Tails 6 venv is destroyed and a Tails 7 version created
  • ./securedrop-admin tailsconfig - confirm that ssh targets, icons, and menu are created
• Confirm that ./securedrop-admin logs completes successfully, capturing the expected logs
• Verify that:
  • ./securedrop-admin sdconfig lists the expected config settings
  • A rerun of ./securedrop-admin install completes successfully (may take time over Tor)
• reboot the admin workstation and verify that:
  • The network hook runs successfully on network connection, and the ssh targets, JI/SI shortcuts, and SecureDrop menu are available.
• Submit via the source interface, create a journalist account, and reply via the journalist interface. Then, confirm that:
  • ./securedrop-admin backup completes successfully
• Reply again, run ./securedrop-admin restore <backupname> and confirm that
  • the restore command completes successfully
  • the second reply is not present.

Fresh install on Tails 7

• On an admin workstation, check out the latest RC and perform a production install, and verify that:
  • ./securedrop-admin setup completes successfully, installing required apt packages and creating a virtualenv with updated dependencies listed above
  • ./securedrop-admin --force sdconfig completes successfully
  • ./securedrop-admin --force install completes successfully
  • ./securedrop-admin --force tailsconfig completes successfully with ssh targets, JI/SI shortcuts (reachable via GNOME search), and SecureDrop menu available.
  • ./securedrop-admin setup -t && ./securedrop-admin verify completes successfully
• reboot the admin workstation and verify that:
  • The network hook runs successfully on network connection, and the ssh targets, JI/SI shortcuts, and SecureDrop menu are available.
• Submit via the source interface, create a journalist account, and reply via the journalist interface. Then, confirm that:
  • ./securedrop-admin backup completes successfully
• Reply again, run ./securedrop-admin restore <backupname> and confirm that
  • the restore command completes successfully
  • the second reply is not present.
• Confirm that ./securedrop-admin logs completes successfully, capturing the expected logs

Preflight testing

• On a Tails 6 Admin Workstation:

  • The updater GUI appears on boot
  • The update successfully occurs to 2.12.10 ( but the updater returns an error when trying to run the setup subcommand)
  • After reboot, updater GUI no longer appears
  • securedrop-admin subcommands prompt user to upgrade to Tails 7, and then exit.

• On a Tails 7 Admin Workstation:

  • After checking out 2.12.10, sudo apt update && ./securedrop-admin setup complete successfully
  • Subsequent securedrop-admin subcommands give their expected responses, without a prompt to upgrade to Tails 7