On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Kevin Grignon <kevingrignon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rob, > > Beyond functional test and unit testing, can we perform some system > testing, based on core usage scenarios? >
How we divide things is somewhat arbitrary but I think this kind of scenario testing is most typically a product design function. For example, you could the some of the same kind of testing with a paper prototype. But one idea, if you want to push the UX/design side of this forward is to follow the model we're doing with QA and Localization: 1) Ask yourself, if in 1 week you could have 5 new UX volunteers, of various skill levels, what could they do *now*? 2) Prepare one or more pages on the website or wiki that list things they could get involved in. 3) Since most would be new to Apache you probably also wold want to connect this into the Orientation work: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/ 4) Maybe it is time for a UX-specific mailing list? 5) Prepare a blog post that we can promote a UX Call for Volunteers Key observation: when we do a call for volunteers, people will volunteer in a staggered pattern, some on day one, some on day 2, some a week later, some two weeks later, etc. You will go crazy if you have explain the same basic things on the list, over and over again. So getting the common questions that everyone will have onto the website is key. That is the purpose of orientation. I'm hoping we can take this general approach and refine it based on experience with QA and L10N then apply it more broadly to other areas of the project, including UX, Market, Dev, Website, etc. -Rob > This is a great way to get more non-technical people involved. Validating > the system's ability to realize our core usage scenarios is really > important. > > This also means we need to crank up the survey effort, where I was working > on deploying a top task validation survey. Ultimately, we need to capture > our core usage scenarios in a single, trusted source for all stakeholders > to reference moving forward. > > Regards, > Kevin > > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > >> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=you_can_help_us_improve >> > >> > If anyone has other ideas for the list of reasons to help with QA, let me >> > know. >> > >> > But in general it looks like we're ready to start a major recruitment >> > effort for QA. We can probably do something similar for localization >> > soon as well. >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> >> oK, this is good. My one comment would be to link to *some page* on "Apache >> OpenOffice 4.0" that contains information on what this release will >> provide. I would think the more volunteers felt it was worthwhile, the >> more likely they would be to help with QA. >> >> Looking forward to the final draft. >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never >> dealt with a cat." >> -- Robert Heinlein >>
