Comment 2 for bug 211320

Note the tool I mentioned in my original blueprint linked from this bug. I'd like to see integration of its features together with the ability to link against the relevant objects in launchpad.

The nice feature of the mentioned tool is that test cases and suites can be the basis of further or larger test suites and are derivable, much like OO programming where you have a base class and its derivatives.

That would be useful to have since many of the components that are candidates for testing share functionality, data and so forth. In this regard I envision the case of a GNOME upstream creating a test case / suite for the software he maintains in Launchpad, and ubuntu qa team 'subclassing' this suite or individual test cases and adding/overriding specific tests or part of tests to make the resulting suite reflect the changes the distro team does to upstream packages.