QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
Fedora 11 EOL bug closure
John Poelstra requested[1] help from the group in checking his planned procedure for closing Fedora 11 bugs at Fedora 11 EOL, 2010-06-25. Michael Cronenworth couldn't see any problems[2], while Dave Malcolm suggested a small change[3].
AutoQA initscript testing
Josef Skladanka explained[1] that the AutoQA team is working on creating tests of LSB compliance in Fedora initscripts, and asked the group for help in validating the tests, and even in creating new ones. He pointed to a wiki page[2] which provided details on how to help out.
Real life Bugzapping class
Vedran Miletić mentioned[1] that he was again planning to focus on triage during one of his university classes. Adam Williamson offered to be around on IRC during the class to help[2]. The class eventually went ahead successfully on 2010-06-07.
Proven testers policy finalized
Adam Miller announced[1] that the "proven testers" policy/process had been finalized and published[2]. He noted that the form of the mentoring process had not yet been decided, and asked applicants to have patience while the group worked it out. James Laska asked[3] "are we ready to start processing these requests?" Adam Williamson suggested[4] first agreeing on what mentors should teach applicants, and proposed that the overall aim be to test that critical path updates do not break the tasks which are defined as the basis of the critical path policy[5]. James posted in broad agreement[6].
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091374.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/JoinProvenTesters
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091404.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091407.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal#What_is_the_critical_path_of_actions.3F
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-June/091408.html
Triage scripts
During the Bugzappers weekly meeting of 2010-06-01[1], Matej Cepl outlined his plans for the currently Jetpack prototype-based triage assistance scripts[2]. He explained that the Jetpack prototype had been discontinued by Mozilla in favour of the Jetpack SDK, which carries the same name and has similar goals but is a completely different design, being an SDK which facilitates the creation of regular Firefox extensions, rather than being an extension in its own right on which scripts are run. Matej intends to rewrite the triage scripts on top of the Jetpack SDK, over time and as the SDK becomes more mature. This has the benefit of making it easier and safer to install and run the scripts, and potentially making them easier to port to other browsers.