Kubuntu Testing and KDE

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Hi folks,

We in Kubuntu are trying to organize our QA efforts, to make them
easier for testers to use, and make the results useful for the
developers. Of course most QA for us happens in KDE itself. We've
asked Sayak to think about creating a webapp that we could use to host
our stuff. We'd love to see KDE chime in, and make this webapp useful
to all of us.

We envision something that developers could easily use to add test
cases, and get information out of. Also, it should be easy to point
testers to, and easy for the testers to report their results, and
create bug reports if necessary.

For now, we're using Google forms, which work OK, but are not ideal.
I've included Harald's announcement of that below. Sayak has given us
some positive feedback, but doesn't have time right now to whip up a
webapp. So we have time to think about exactly what we want.

Is the KDE Quality team in favor of such a webapp? Are there similar
testing frameworks from which we could take inspiration?

Valorie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:14 AM
Subject: Kubuntu Testing and You
To: Kubuntu Developer Discussion <kubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>,
Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>


Ahoy everyone,

As part of ongoing quality control measures for Kubuntu 14.04, we are
introducing basic test cases that every user can run to ensure that
core functionality such as instant messaging and playing MP3 files is
working as expected. All tests are meant to take no more than 10
minutes and should be doable by just about everyone. They are the
perfect way to get some basic testing done without all the hassle
testing usually involves.

If you are already testing Beta 1, head on over to our Quality
Assurance Headquarters [1] to get the latest test cases.

Feel free to run any test case, at any time.

If you have any questions, send me a mail, reply to this thread, or
stop by in #kubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net.

[1] http://qa.kubuntu.co.uk/smoke-tests.html

HS
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