Community testing meetings/2008-11-06

From OLPC
Jump to navigation Jump to search

This meeting is over.The meeting was in #olpc-meeting on Start date::November 11, 2008 17:00 (Eastern standard time in the USA). Please see the meeting log for more details.

Meeting log

See http://meeting.laptop.org/olpc-meeting.log.20081106_1658.html.

------- Everything below this line is from the pre-meeting agenda. See the meeting logs to see what was discussed. --------

Previous meeting's action items

See Testing meetings/20081030#Action items.

Community testing portal page (lfaraone, mchua)

We have a Community testing page! It needs a lot of help...

Current Activity prep-for-test procedure feedback (mchua)

Inspired by Gregdek: How to test an Activity - can we try this out?

Kimquirk requests that we spend some time on quality, metrics, and how people can take ownership of that for specific activities or features of Sugar.

Status of current Activities being tested (mchua, frandog)

To cover:

Deferred to email

Prioritizing Activities to test (gregdek)

What options/tools are out there?

Pre-meeting notes on the topic are at /Prioritizing activities to test, add your own here!

Displaying testing metrics in motivating ways (cjl, from notes)

What options/tools are out there?

Pre-meeting notes on the topic are at /Displaying testing metrics in motivating ways, add your own here!

Action items

  • mchua to post/mail-to-list these meeting minutes DONE
  • mchua to follow-up with outstanding action items from last week DONE
  • mchua Post an example on How to test an Activity of how a casual tester can record their test results.
  • adricnet, mchua Dream up automation designs to present to group next week. "I'm a tester. I want to automate this boring thing. What is my ideal interface to do so / the most beautiful tool I could imagine for it?"
  • gregdek, bjordan try out (on Speak and Paint respectively) our How to test an Activity instructions.
  • mchua to talk with sj, kimquirk, and others about what kinds of brib^H^H^H^H resources we can offer to motivate and reward testers, both tangible and intangible.
  • gregdek, cjl to bring up items that were deferred to email in conversation in the testing mailing list over the next week.

Help needed

  • How to test an Activity instructions are under severe amounts of construction... are there any volunteers here with exploratory test experience that can help write up this guide?
Retrieved from "http://wiki.laptop.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-06&oldid=178899"