On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been doing QA for about 10 years. I've been using MS Office for 15+ > years and OpenOffice for about 2 years. I can perform QA in probably just > about any area needed. A specific area of interest of mine is test > automation for which I have been trained and additionally have a few months > experience (JUnit). I'd like to build on this. I am also an Access Power > User, proficient in VBA. One area of OpenOffice I haven't explored much yet > is the VBA-equivalent in it used to program user forms and other code-based > additions. Looking forward to making your acquaintance. >
Hello Tom, and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! It sounds like you have a good background in QA and we would benefit greatly from your skills and experience. I'd recommend quickly skimming over our New Volunteer Orientation modules here: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/ Although they won't teach you anything that you don't already know about QA, given your background, it will give you some important background related to Apache, how projects are run, decision making, i.e., the softer, cultural/social side of a volunteer-run open source project. The Intro to QA modules will give you an overview of our test workflow and tools and will get you set up with an Bugzilla account: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html Not mentioned there (since it is a more advanced topic) is our vclAuto test automation tool. This uses JUnit and Java code to define test cases that can then be run against our OpenOffice GUI. So that might be a good area to look into given your interests. More information on that tool is on the wiki, which unfortuantly appears to be down right now. But you can check here when it comes back up: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/vcla Let me know if you have any questions! Regards, -Rob > Thanks, > Tom
