[Chandler-dev] Litmus: tests cases for the public

[Philippe Bossut]

Thanks Jared for the link, very interesting.

I'm wondering what our ex Mozilla people think about it (Heikki?).

Cheers,
- Philippe

Jared Rhine wrote:
> I've mentioned the following to a couple of people individually, so 
> just putting it here for interest:
>
>   http://litmus.mozilla.org/
>
> My interpretation of this is that it's a public database of test 
> cases, with a web page for retrieving the individual cases and a web 
> page for submitting pass/fail results from the public.
>
> If OSAF was interested in the approach, it'd probably be in the 
> context of infrastructure useful to support community QA.  We might 
> document (and give an id) to each test case we're interesting in 
> having the community run.  We might even schedule test days this way 
> (see the "testdays" link in the left-hand navigation).
>
> I don't offer this as a short-list thing we should do or anything like 
> that.  It's mentioned only for general awareness of the pattern (ie, 
> "litmus means public database of test cases") and maybe for eventual 
> consideration when efforts to increase community-driven QA are 
> undertaken.
>
> -- Jared