Isoken Ibizugbe

salsa profile: https://salsa.debian.org/isoken

Isoken is a former Outreachy Intern who collaborated with the Debian QA team using openqa, focusing on automating desktop environment testing. With a background in product management, I am particularly drawn to helping solve problems for people; it keeps bugging me till I can find a way to help. This interest in problem-solving and improving quality is what drew me to this project.

Accepted Talks:

Improving Debian Through Better Testing

In this talk, I’ll share how I used Openqa to set up “start-stop” tests for LXQt, Cinnamon, and XFCE desktop environments. I’ll show how these tests launch apps, check the user interface, and make sure they close properly. This way, we can be confident that Debian Live images are truly functional, not just bootable.

This presentation is for QA engineers, developers, and Linux enthusiasts who want to automate manual testing. It’s especially useful if you’re working on desktop stability or curious about how openQA handles different environments.

Attendees will learn how to write reusable test scripts for various desktops and how to spot failures that boot tests might miss. I’ll also talk about how this helps improve Debian’s reliability by providing a final check before release.

Additionally, I will discuss my journey to joining the Debian project through my Outreachy internship (a newcomer from an underrepresented background as a woman of colour), my tasks/contributions, and their impact. It will serve as a form of encouragement to newcomers to the Debian project and the openqa testing project.