[Chandler-dev] How could you help in QA

[Aparna Kadakia]

With just a handful of bugs open on Desktop and Server, the end  
finally seems near. As the trend continues, we are only allowing  
restricted check-ins after bug council approval for blocker bugs.  
This might find many of you with some available time to help with the  
release. QA is one area where we could always use some extra help to  
broaden test coverage:

The areas that QA could use help on:

1. Develop more automated tests:
As for in Desktop, we could use more unit tests for each of the  
feature areas to help catch regressions after bug fixes. Also broaden  
test coverage by adding tests that cover more than just the core  
areas. As for Cosmo, we could use help in developing more Windmill  
tests for the web UI. We have a list of existing Windmill testcases  
under:
http://chandlerproject.org/Teams/CosmoDotSevenWindmillTestingCoverage
You can help write additional test scripts. Mikeal and Adam have  
agreed to do an IRC session on helping others write Windmill tests.  
An email will be sent out soon.

2. Help run through test cases from the test specifications :
There is a serious concern about regressions being introduced with  
the recent bug fixes and we could benefit from more regression  
testing of the application. For the Desktop, the various test  
specifications are checked in here :
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerDesktopTestSpecifications

Specifically, we are could use help in executing the test cases from  
the following spec:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/EditUpdateTestSpec
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/DashboardTestSpec
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/TriageTestSpec

These testcases were all executed as part of functional testing  
phase. So we haven't run them off late. Please update the status  
column with the revision number and whether it passed or not.

For the Server team, the test specifications are available under:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerServerTestSpecifications

The ones we could use help on are:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoZeroDotSevenTestSpec
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoSevenMigrationTestPlan

3. Validating Resolved bugs fixed by others:
This not only helps verifying whether a bug has been resolved but  
also helps catch any regressions introduced along the way.

Feel free to ping any of us from the QA team if you have questions on  
how to help. We have things for you if you have just a few mins,  
couple of hours or days to help.

Thanks and lets get this release out!
Aparna



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