Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_update-design-doc 3 19 Sep 2026, 06:34

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 95 0 0 0 0 95 12 0 12 9:30.213 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Hardware failures
In order to update my failing hardware before I lose data As a Tails user I want to be warned about hardware failures
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.607
Then the computer boots Tails 21.913
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.127
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.684
Then the computer boots Tails 21.442
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.100
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.576
Then the computer boots Tails 21.288
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
25.383
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.892
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.185
Then I see a disk failure message 1.350
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.602
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
Then I see a disk failure message 0.648
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.475
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.308
Then I see a disk failure message 0.656
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.559
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.217
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.619
Then the computer boots Tails 34.496
When I log in to a new session 8.143
And all notifications have disappeared 7.255
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.118
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
55.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.126
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.194
And I power off the computer 0.235
When I start the computer 0.581
Then the computer boots Tails 31.830
When I log in to a new session 7.996
And all notifications have disappeared 6.733
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:31.025
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_gpt_corruption=gpt_backup,gpt_backup_table" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.226
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.419
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.418
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 6.802
And all notifications have disappeared 7.482
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.115
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.169
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.213
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.109
Tags: @product
1:17.303
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.102
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.968
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.724
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.185
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.201
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.097
Tags: @product
1:4.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.092
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.816
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.374
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.210
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.052
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
Tags: @product
1:13.630
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.086
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.036
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.106
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.173
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.087