Rahul,
I'm a new guy too so nothing definitive to follow, but I'm happy to
share what little I've learned in the last few weeks.
My biggest problem getting started is the sheer size of the task and the
lack of assignments. This is a job for the self-motivated, self
directed person not a supervised grunt. Personally, I wouldn't mind
being assigned some grunt work in the beginning. it might go a long way
to help getting the new guy immersed in the process. So if any of you
mentors need some manpower on your current task just ask.
There's a fair amount written in the QA wiki's you can start at the
testing team page <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/> but I haven't found
an answer to the question "what do I do"
ISO testing <http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/> has some defined test plans that
are best run on a spare machine.
It is most convenient for me to run a virtual machine so I've been
loading iso's and trying to use it as much as I can. Lately this has
led to as many problems with VirtualBox and it's client drivers as it
has with Natty but I'm not sure that is a bad thing. I'd like to get
experience with Unity and exercise it but current issues with the 3D VB
drivers are postponing that.
As far as I can tell so far, the main function of the QA team is to use
the new stuff and generate high quality bug reports on the problems we
find.
It doesn't seem to be coordinated effort with assignments or test plans,
so I've been exploring and loading and using packages that I normally
use and anything else that catches my fancy. When I run into a problem
it's 50-50 a bug or my inexperience so I do a lot of web searching,
reading bug reports and forum posts, I'm spending much of my time in
/var/log. it's a great way to educate myself and maybe help the process.
As I said I'm new, I have no problem with people telling me I'm wrong or
pointing out what I'm missing, just the opposite. The main reason for
this email is to find problems with my view of the process.
Welcome aboard and good hunting.
Joe
On 03/19/2011 11:21 AM, rahul hada wrote:
Dear All,
I am new in the mailing list and also new in QA , could you please
provide me some guidance.
Happy Learning!
Rahul Hada
India
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