Kubuntu Testing and KDE

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Ciao Luigi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Luigi Toscano
> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>> Valorie Zimmerman ha scritto:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> why not reuse a real test case management system like TestLink?
>> http://testlink.org/
>>
>> It is used by OpenOffice.org: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Testlink
>> I took a brief look at it some time ago and it seems quite complete, even if
>> it could be complex for newcomers; on the other side it is a good choice for
>> the long term.
>
> Sounds like a very good idea, and it is not overly complex, as the
> tester doesn't have to configure much, and with clear instructions on
> how to use it this shouldn't be a problem. Since it is Free Software,
> it can also be adapted to our needs.
>
> So yes, why not go for TesLlink and eventually adapt it to our needs?
> Would probably spare some work, and we don't have to reinvent the
> wheel :)

The last time I used TestLink, the administrative (i.e. test case
management) side of things was nothing short of complicated madness,
that was quite a while ago however. Not being simple on the
administative reduces the amount of people who are willing to work
with it, eventually again decreasing the usefulness (greetings from
bugzilla and all the devs who never ever look at it :'<).

HS