Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6311 20 Apr 2026, 13:57

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Emergency shutdown 36 0 0 0 0 36 5 0 5 4:28.747 Passed
Feature Emergency shutdown
As a Tails user when I unplug my Tails device to trigger emergency shutdown I want the system memory to be free from sensitive data.
47.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in and the network is connected 37.479
When I eject the boot medium 0.232
Then Tails eventually shuts down 9.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
29.411
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.928
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.506
And I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 12.289
And patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.325

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.228
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 6.515
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.617

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1464 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
24.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.990
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.396
And I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 5.945
And I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.177
And I read the content of the test FS 0.058
And patterns cover at least 90% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.543

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.249
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 5.715
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.721

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1482 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
47.624
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 7.574
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.367
And I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 30.353
And I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 0.863
And I read the content of the test FS 0.063
And patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.090

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.256
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 5.519
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.536

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1481 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:59.696
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.082
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.410
And I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 11.871
And patterns cover at least 100 MiB in the guest's memory 1.978

Pattern coverage: 128.000% (128 MiB out of 100 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.334
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 5.969
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.567

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1479 MiB reference memory)

And Tails eventually shuts down 1:30.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000