Forwarding this note to the dev list as well. This is a task that anyone can help with, not only those who think of themselves as "qa". Since the Sidebar is a major new feature in AOO 4.0 we need all the help we can get testing this.
-Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yi Xuan Liu <liuyixuan....@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:18 PM Subject: Call for volunteers for AOO 4.0 sidebar testing on trunk build To: q...@openoffice.apache.org Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. The latest AOO release version is AOO 3.4.1 which has been downloaded by millions of people. Now we are on the trip of AOO 4.0. Sidebar is a new feature in AOO 4.0 release, which combines idea and code from both Symphony sidebar and OpenOffice Impress task panel. More info about sidebar could be found at sidebar wiki <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar>. Previously some volunteers run sidebar test on sidebar developing build. Thanks for these volunteers. Now, sidebar has been integrated into trunk build, and more sidebar panel are available now. We need more volunteers in sidebar testing on trunk build. This task is easy to follow execute and won't cost your much effort. The Game Rule is: *0. Choose your interesting test field and platform you will run on* I'll assign test cases to your according to your choice. Test Field: 13 sidebar panels will be tested: Text properties panel, Page properties panel, Area properties panel, Line panel, Position and Size panel, Graphic panel, Layouts panel, table design panel, alignment panel, cell appearance panel, number format panel, paragraph panel, wrap panel Platform: We plan to run test cases on 3 platforms: Suse(Redhat)-64bit, Ubuntu-64bit, Win 7 *1. Download AOO 4.0 build and install AOO 4.0:* Builds could be downloaded from AOO buildbots. It provides Linux 64bit(rpm and deb) install packages<http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/index.html#linux64>and Win 7 install packages <http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/index.html#win >. The install packages names is like this "Apache OpenOffice 4.0.0 XXX x86(x86-64) install XXX.XXX" *2. Execute test cases in testlink:* (1) Register in testlink: http://aootesting.adfinis-sygroup.org/index.php (2) Log into testlink and change "test projects" to "Apache OpenOffice testproject" in the right corner. (3) Found the test cases assigned to you from "Test Cases Assigned to Me" under "Text Execution" Panel (4) Execute the test case according to test case description (5) Record test case execution result in test link More testlink guide could be found at http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Testlink A video about how to run case and input result are provided at http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Testlink#Video_Demo *3. Open bugs in Bugzilla* Please open bugs in bugzilla when finding issue during test. (1) Register in bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ (2) Log on bugzilla and open new bugs. You could reference How to file a good issue <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/HowToFileIssue> *Note: Please add "[sidebar]" at the beginning of bug summary* Are you ready to take part in? If yes, *please tell me your interesting test field ,platform info from #0 list and testlink id**!*
