Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_update-design-doc 1 17 Sep 2026, 19:12

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 9:20.014 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
25.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.146
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.647
Then the computer boots Tails 23.405
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.094
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.639
Then the computer boots Tails 22.466
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.983
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.114
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.630
Then the computer boots Tails 22.429
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
Tags: @product @doc
23.432
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.125
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.740
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.192
Then I see a disk failure message 1.207
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.636
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.308
Then I see a disk failure message 0.687
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.084
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.487
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.336
Then I see a disk failure message 1.455
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.534
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 22.379
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.214
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.627
Then the computer boots Tails 35.447
When I log in to a new session 8.285
And all notifications have disappeared 7.144
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.191
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
59.466
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 8.327
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.238
When I start the computer 0.670
Then the computer boots Tails 33.894
When I log in to a new session 8.383
And all notifications have disappeared 7.528
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.198
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
1:32.877
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.127
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.431
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.349
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.421
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 7.389
And all notifications have disappeared 6.547
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.154
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.175
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.184
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
1:3.213
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.095
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.291
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.388
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.171
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.127
Tags: @product
57.872
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.986
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.308
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.279
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.029
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.113
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
59.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.092
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.097
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.212
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.128