I'll ask tomorrow at our regular meeting with the project lead.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:41 AM, xia zhao <lilyzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/12/8, Andor E <eymux2...@googlemail.com>: >> Hi, >> I almost missed your mail. When I got no response to my offer, I >> thought there was no interest. > > Sorry, I was catched by some urgent things those days after I post the > AOO 3.4 test plan topic to community and missed your mail.. > >> Our testers use TestLink (http://www.teamst.org/), so the test cases >> currently live inside that. From the manual it seems, that one can >> only export to XML. Which format would you prefer? > XML format sounds fine for me. > >> Other than that, I still need to ask for permission to share the test >> cases. It would help, if I could demonstrate serious interest by the >> community to put the tests to good use. > Yes, now we have had several QA vulunteers have strong passion to > contribute their effort to AOO 3.4 and further AOO testing. One big > challenge for us is the most test assets, especially manual test > cases, are not migrated from old OO site to Apache OO site. This will > bring high risk to regression testing and to the AOO quality > assurance. Thanks advance if your team can share it. > >> >> Greetings >> >> Andor Ertsey >> >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, xia zhao <lilyzh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Andor, >>> >>> It will be much appreciated if you can share it with free license. And we >>> can see if some volunters can contribute to the translation. >>> >>> Hope your response. Thanks. >>> 2011/11/24 Andor E <eymux2...@googlemail.com> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> for our project we have a sizeable amount of manual test cases for >>>> OpenOffice.org (created by professional test engineers). These are >>>> used for internal and user tests before a release. If there's a >>>> serious interest in it, I might be able to arrange a release of these >>>> test cases under a free license (creative commons?). They are written >>>> in German, though, and would need to be translated first. >>>> >>>> Greetings >>>> >>>> Andor Ertsey >>>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:58 AM, xia zhao <lilyzh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >> Hi all, >>>> >> I think it's time for use to discuss and detail AOO 3.4 test plan now. >>>> >> Basically at current time I suggest: >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > Hi Lily, Thanks for the proposal. >>>> > >>>> >> 1. Leverage OpenOffice users on General Usage test >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > For this to work we need: >>>> > >>>> > 1) Test cases that are clear and easy to understand >>>> > >>>> > 2) Test cases that can be run without requiring a lot of preparation >>>> > >>>> > 3) Test cases that can be run without dedicating much time. How can >>>> > someone help who has only 1 hour to contribute? >>>> > >>>> > 4) Test cases that can be run without learning a lot of other tools or >>>> processes >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >> 2. Focus on establishing automation mechanism. Start from Build >>>> >> Verification Testing(BVT in short). >>>> > >>>> > Is the the same as a "smoke test"? >>>> > >>>> >> 3. Focus on test infrastructure set up. Start from case management >>>> tool. >>>> >> For 3.4, place the test cases on wiki and volunteer can do general >>>> testing >>>> >> against. If volunteer couldn't write cases, may give the test scope >>>> >> he >>>> >> would do. For example, which component etc. And then report defects >>>> >> in >>>> >> Apache Bugzilla. >>>> > >>>> > Maybe we also need a "guide to writing test cases"? Or point to >>>> > something that already exists for the project. >>>> > >>>> >> 4. Focus on Performance Verification Testing(PVT in short) >>>> >> investigation, and setup benchmark PVT environment. >>>> > >>>> > OK. >>>> > >>>> >> 5. Establish QA entry in AOO wiki https://cwiki.apache.org/ >>>> > >>>> > OK. >>>> > >>>> >> 6. Build private build before official build is ready >>>> > >>>> > OK. >>>> > >>>> >> 7. Platform will be covered >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> - Windows XP >>>> >> - Win7 32bit/64bit >>>> >> - Where we only have a 32bit windows version, it should run against >>>> >> 62bit windows version. >>>> >> - Redhat 6 32 bit/64 bit >>>> >> - Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit/64 bit >>>> >> - Mac 10.7 >>>> >> - Mac 10.6.x >>>> >> - FreeBSD 9.0/8.2 (9.0 is suppose to release at 12/07/2011?) >>>> >> - OS2 >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > For platforms, maybe we think about them like this: >>>> > >>>> > 1) In order to preserve the value of the OpenOffice brand among users >>>> > and our reputation for high quality, we will have an official Apache >>>> > binary release only on platforms that have successfully completed the >>>> > QA plan that we all agree on. >>>> > >>>> > 2) Volunteers, based on their interests, will determine which >>>> > platforms are officially supported in releases. >>>> > >>>> > 3) Platforms that do not have enough volunteers to complete the test >>>> > plan would not have official Apache releases. Or if we had releases, >>>> > they would be called "experimental" or some other name to indicate >>>> > that they were not fully tested. >>>> > >>>> > 4) Of course, anyone is welcome to take our official source releases >>>> > and make a build on another platform and distribute it. But these >>>> > would not be official Apache releases. >>>> > >>>> > -Rob >>>> > >>>> >> Welcome your comments. >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> >>
