On 11/1/12 10:09 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 31/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: >> Ok, I thought "team" meant language teams. But I have searched the >> Wiki and >> cannot find any documentation on the required QA procedure relating to >> national languages. >> Can it be, that it was never really defined and written down ? > > It was. We used to have two tools, TCM and QATrack. > > The former was a test management platform, which (among many other > things) contained a "Release Sanity" test suite, about 30 tests that > should be passed to release OpenOffice in a certain language: sorting > text with native language characters and so on. > > The latter was a web panel where responsible QA persons for each > language could state that they were running QA on, say, the German Mac > OS X version and report whether the build was approved or rejected (and > much more, but this is the basic idea). > > Both tools are unused now. TCM is not accessible but if Oracle manages > to provide the testcases (not the platform) we will be able to reuse > them. QATrack was initially written by me and then significantly > extended by Per Eriksson and we should have it somewhere, but can be > easily redone on a proper framework: I wouldn't write a tool explicitly > for that purpose any longer these days. >
I am not sure but maybe we can use TestLink more in the future. I have to confess that I never used QATrack in the past and don't know what it provided exactly and how it was used. http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/login.php Juergen
