On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, purva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Purva and I would like to volunteer in QA. I am from Houston, TX. > I am new to QA field. I took training in QA and I know Hp quality center, > QTP, and Load runner. Also know how to report a bug on Mantis. > > I am willing to learn more and get some real time experience. I am new to > this field so I would like to try easier task first. > > Please let me know what should be my next step to start the QA work. >
Hi Purva, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! Are you an OpenOffice users? If not you'll want to download the latest version and poke around: http://www.openoffice.org/download We just released our 4.0 version a couple of weeks ago. In the first week it was downloaded over 1 million times! We don't yet have a more recent build from the developers. So we're not doing any formal testing right now. Most of us are focused on reviewing incoming bug reports from users. Users tend to write vague defect reports. We try to work with them to gather additional details and if possible confirm the defect report and pass it on to the developers to look at. In many cases the bugs are duplicates and we can close the duplicate report quickly. In some cases the user report is a "how to" question not a bug, and we refer them to the support forum. So if you'd like to help us with confirming new bug reports, the assistance would be much appreciated. You can find specific steps to get started on our website. We have a few pages of "orientation" information for new volunteers here: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/ If you are new to working on an open source project I'd recommend skimming the Level 1 and Level 2 topics for background. And I do mean skim. No need to spend hours reading all that. But then focus on the "Introduction to QA" topic: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html That has some specific tasks for you to start with, subscribing to mailing lists, creating a Bugzilla account, adding your info to the wiki, etc. Once you've done that you can help with the "Easy QA Task: Confirm New Defect Reports" items. Don't hesitate to send along any questions! Regards, -Rob > > > Regards > > Purva. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
