Kubuntu Testing and KDE

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Valorie,


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Definitely, yes, I think this could be useful for many KDE projects.
The main problem currently is that everybody wants testers, but
without giving instructions on "What" and "How" to test is usually not
very helpful and scares away a lot of potential testers. Especially
for volunteers who want to start testing clear instructions are
essential, just asking them "test by doing what you usually do" is a
far too vague to give results that are really helpful. This could also
incite KDE projects to think about their use cases and define more
accurately what their application is supposed to do and how it is
meant to be used. Mind you, there are always use cases we never think
of that will only appear when having real user tests.

So yes, a clear +1 from me, with my Quality Team hat on :)


Regards, Myriam

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