On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:52 PM, victoria.hardy <victoria.ha...@vecna.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > My name is Victoria Hardy. I am a QA tester working for Vecna > Technologies in Cambridge. My company has a strong emphasis on community
Hello Victoria, and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! Ah, Cambridge. I used at Lotus Development Corporation, many years ago, both in Lechmere and Kendall Square. Boca Grande burritos, yummm... But now I'm out in the 'burbs. > service and open source projects, so I have decide to get involved with the > OpenOffice community. I have been a software tester for about 2 years. I > have particular experience with manual testing, test case writing, and > accessibility standards for software. Although I have mostly been doing > manual testing I know how to use Selenium and I hope to learn jBehave soon. > I have some programming skills in Java, C++ and Python. Wow, it sounds like you have a great set of skills and experience. We can always use someone with this kind of background. > What I don't really have experience with is the Open Source Community. I > have been reading through the QA orientation module. I have opened a > Bugzilla account. I am used to working with Jira, but Bugzilla looks fairly > similar so I don't think the learning curve on it should be that steep. If you are entirely new to open source you might want to review some of the other orientation pages as well, so you get a feel for how we're organized and how we make decisions. It is very different from a hierarchical top-down corporate structure. We're very "flat" and self-directed. http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/ > Perhaps it would be best for me to start with reviewing some of the bug > reports? Is there a specific procedure for doing that? We just release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 last week. So reviewing incoming bug reports from users, to see if there is anything surprising (we hope not!) found by them in this release is a good place to start. You can find details in the "Easy QA Task: Confirm New Defect Reports" section of the QA Orientation page. Regards, -Rob > I look forward to working with you all. > > Thank you, > Victoria > > -- > Victoria Hardy</br> > Software Tester</br> > > victoria.ha...@vecna.com</br> > > 401-499-3942 (mobile)</br> > > www.vecna.com</br> > > Cambridge Research Laboratory</br> > > Vecna Technologies, Inc.</br> > > 36 Cambridge Park Drive > Cambridge, MA 02140</br> > > Office: (617) 864-0636 > Fax: (617) 864-0638 > http://vecna.com</br> > > Better Technology, Better World (TM)</br> > > The contents of this message may be privileged and confidential. Therefore, > if this message has been received in error, > please delete it without reading it. Your receipt of this message is not > intended to waive any applicable privilege. > Please do not disseminate this message without the permission of the > author. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
