Testing & Quality Assurance

Ubuntu MATE is always improving and changing. Our development team is constantly working to make this the best experience possible but there will always be bugs! Finding these makes life easier on the developers and makes things better for our users. – including you

So you want to find ’s and join in the fun? Yes, it really is!

Join the Ubuntu MATE Community
Create a Launchpad/Ubuntu SSO account
Download the ISO
Test!
Report and Update the ISO Tracker

It’s pretty simple but very important! Here are some tips & tricks that will help.

How to report bugs
Step-by-step guide
Let us know about issues via the Ubuntu MATE Community

Also remember to ask yourself Is the problem reproducible? We need to know the steps needed to reproduce your issue.

While you can certainly download an ISO release individually. For convenience, we highly recommend zsync. Eric Adams has produced a short video that is a great introduction to using zsync for testing:

We’d to have you join us in testing and become part of our Community. We are always looking for more testers!

Finally, Alan Pope has produced a wonderful video on testing Ubuntu MATE. We are sure you can do a better job of it than he did.