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== Fedora Quality Assurance ==
== Fedora Quality Assurance ==


Fedora is a rapidly progressing distribution and collection of free software.
== Activities ==


We have detailed quality assurance procedures to help maintain a cutting edge, innovating and a robust platform which consist of people like you and me around the world.  
The Quality Assurance project is engaged in the following activities:
* [[Testing]] of software as it is released into Rawhide, updates-testing, or as it appears in a supported public release.
* Developing and executing [[QA/TestPlans]] to test important functionality in a systematic way, usually with multiple cooperating testers.
* Developing and run [[QA/Tools]], which use automation to find potential bugs.
* [[QA/Test Days]] are typically held on Thursdays to coordinate focused testing on a specific feature or component.
* The QA team works with developers and [[ReleaseEngineering|release engineers]] to maintain the [[QA/ReleaseCriteria|Release Criteria]], which are used to determine what bugs count as release blockers.


What we do can be broken down to 3 categories.
== Related Projects ==


* [[ User:Johannbg/Draft/QA/QC|Quality Control. ]] A.K.A Bug Hunters Bug Triagers...
Other quality-related activities are handled elsewhere.
* [[ User:Johannbg/Draft/QA/SQA|Quality Assurance. ]]
* [[BugZappers]] handle bug triage - they examine bugs reported by other people and resolve duplicates, incomplete reports, etc. BugZappers share the fedora-test-list mailing list with the QA Project.
* [[ Development|Development ]] A.K.A Bug Breeders...
* [[PackageMaintainers]] fix bugs identified by the QA Project, with the help of upstream authors and patches proposed by testers.
* [[:Category:SIGs|Special Interest Group]] activities are interdisciplinary, involving everything from development to quality assurance.


== Communicate ==
== Communicate ==

Revision as of 16:21, 9 February 2009

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Fedora Quality Assurance

Activities

The Quality Assurance project is engaged in the following activities:

  • Testing of software as it is released into Rawhide, updates-testing, or as it appears in a supported public release.
  • Developing and executing QA/TestPlans to test important functionality in a systematic way, usually with multiple cooperating testers.
  • Developing and run QA/Tools, which use automation to find potential bugs.
  • QA/Test Days are typically held on Thursdays to coordinate focused testing on a specific feature or component.
  • The QA team works with developers and release engineers to maintain the Release Criteria, which are used to determine what bugs count as release blockers.

Related Projects

Other quality-related activities are handled elsewhere.

  • BugZappers handle bug triage - they examine bugs reported by other people and resolve duplicates, incomplete reports, etc. BugZappers share the fedora-test-list mailing list with the QA Project.
  • PackageMaintainers fix bugs identified by the QA Project, with the help of upstream authors and patches proposed by testers.
  • Special Interest Group activities are interdisciplinary, involving everything from development to quality assurance.

Communicate

Meetings are held Wednesdays at 1600UTC.

The Meetings are open for everyone to attend and participate in.

General info on QA meetings such as topics for next meeting along with previous meetings can be found here.

Get Involved


The QA team would like to thank you for taking your time to reading about the QA project.