Community Testing

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This page is where we plan community testing. Friends in testing (in the wiki nav under "Projects > Testing" and in Participate and such) is where we actually call out to users to help us test.

[edit] Introduction

Note: This is a strawman draft under discussion on the testing mailing list.

• We are a volunteer community group.
• We test OLPC products and advocate bugfixes on behalf of stakeholders.
• We are transparent about our processes and our results.
• We seek to learn and try new things and to teach others what we know.
• We ask forgiveness, not permission; we value rough consensus, passing tests, and coverage.

[edit] Mailing list

The best place to go to join community testing conversations is the Testing mailing list, which is also mirrored on an external forum.

[edit] How you can help

We welcome everyone to the community test group regardless of background, experience, or how much free time you have available; there are tasks for a broad range of skill and commitment levels, and if you don't yet know how to do something for a task you want to take on, we'll work with you to find a way to learn.

[edit] 2008 and 2009 testing

Community testing group had weekly Community testing meetings on IRC, focusing on

• G1G1 Activity testing
• testing the 8.2.1 release, using a lot of test cases summarized in Test cases 8.2.1 coordinated by a Test manager
• smoke tests for 8.2.1 (and earlier quick smoke test for release 8.2.0)
• Creating new test cases and Reporting test results in a (probably obsolete as of 2010) test case results system.

[edit] Resources

• Testing tools
• How to test an Activity