Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_update-design-doc 2 18 Sep 2026, 06:24

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 9:29.658 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
25.052
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 0.612
Then the computer boots Tails 23.269
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.869
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.622
Then the computer boots Tails 21.843
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.119
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.076
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.618
Then the computer boots Tails 22.289
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.450
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.108
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.990
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.236
Then I see a disk failure message 0.679
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.157
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.978
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.770
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.065
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.328
Then I see a disk failure message 1.299
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.317
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.103
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.201
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.663
Then the computer boots Tails 34.769
When I log in to a new session 9.284
And all notifications have disappeared 6.858
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.170
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.296
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 8.097
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.238
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.603
Then the computer boots Tails 33.324
When I log in to a new session 8.552
And all notifications have disappeared 7.042
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:24.847
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.130
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.346
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.475
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.520
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.053
When I log in to a new session 7.949
And all notifications have disappeared 6.868
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.134
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.162
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.159
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.139
Tags: @product
1:13.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.389
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.312
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.206
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.028
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.073
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.171
Tags: @product
59.873
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.114
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.953
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.297
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.232
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.114
Tags: @product
1:8.092
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.098
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.388
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.951
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.391
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116