Brian Cameron wrote: > Paul: > > I applaud the idea of making our testing process more open and public. > This is a really great idea. However, the process you suggest seems > Solaris-centric. I think we could be taking this idea further. > > Since most desktop applications are free/open software, shouldn't we be > working more closely with the external free software communities? > For example, perhaps the various companies who use GNOME could be > working more closely together to share test specifications, testing > results, etc. > Hi Brian,
I'm all for the idea to work with up-stream communities. That's what the Firefox/Thunderbird QEs are doing right now. Instead of only sticking with the apTest test tool, they join Mozilla community by using the Litmus test tool: https://litmus.mozilla.org/, and also work with Mozilla community to organize bugday(bug verification)/testday(test on a specific feature or release) events in China. Just one thing need to be made clear. Could we trust the testing results from other companies or communities? I think GNOME has the similar situation with Firefox/Thunderbird. Solaris shares most code with Linux distros but there are still some differences. If a Linux distro releases a test report with GO, do we still need to do the test again on Solaris? Thanks, -Alfred > For example, there isn't even a QA specific GNOME mailing list at > http://mail.gnome.org/. Perhaps it would be good to similarly suggest > to the GNOME community that such a list be created so that QA/QE > engineers from different organizations can talk together and work more > closely together. > > In other words, I think we should consider sending our proposal to the > external GNOME, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. mailing lists and see if > there is a more general interest with these communities to work more > closely together in QA/QE testing efforts. > > Having said all this, I think there is also value in having a > Sun-specific QA desktop mailing list. After all, some aspects of > QA testing will be distro specific. I just think we should also > be working to work more closely with the external communities as > well. > > Brian
