FUDCon QA Sessions?
James Laska
jlaska at redhat.com
Mon Jun 16 16:16:57 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:24 -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
> Hadn't seen anything here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10
> about testing related sessions at FUDCon and wondered if there was
> interest in having a few? (forgive me if someone has posted something
> like this already).
> I think a lot of good things came out of the anaconda/snake sessions in
> RDU in January 2008 so would a couple more topics be good for Boston at
> the end of this week?
Good timing! See below ...
> As a starting point here are some of the points that came out of the F9
> postmortem (some of which I think we are already working on):
>
> 1) Document and reconsider installation testing approach
> 2) Do we need more RHT provided hardware?
> 3) Evaluate "rawhide" as a viable and worthwhile testing target
> 4) Better utilizing Anaconda's ability to install different repos of
> packages with a known good stage2
> 5) Test plans for other areas besides installation testing
> 6) Expanding testing--larger number number of consistent community testers
> 7) Exposing Fedora 10 Blocker Bugs
> a) identify earlier and more often
> b) make blocker bugs more visible to community
> 8) Increase effectiveness of Triage group at identifying blocker bugs
> a) Provide Training
> b) Create clearer documentation and guidelines around what types of
> bugs should be added to blocker bug
> --make policies broad so as to capture more bugs (err on the side
> of capturing too many bugs--can always remove)
> 9) Formal tracking of test plans and their execution with greater
> overall visibility into the process
> 10) Reward contributions from testers
> 11) More involvement of RHEL QE group--testing resources and expertise
> 12) Test/re-test installer issues earlier and more often during release.
> This depends on:
> a) test automation
> b) installable trees
Anyone interested in discussing points 1, 5, 6 and 9, I encourage you
to join a hackfest session I'll be hosting @ FUDCON later this week.
I'm anxious for more feedback/ideas!
Thanks,
James
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