On 02/27/2012 01:37 AM, e-letter wrote: > Readers, > > For those people that consider high quality software to be of highest > priority, more important than new features, please help to perform > quality assurance manual software tests. > > There is a web page which describes manual testing: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Manual_Tests. Clearly, > there are insufficient testers...
Clearly: <quote> IMPORTANT: Obsoleted by Litmus Litmus is a useful tool for organizing manual tests. Please, help us to migrate all these test cases there and remove them from this wiki page. </quote> So why even point 'users' to that page? > > Please also subscribe to the quality assurance mailing list: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa. > > There are many bugs that seem to occur after so-called "upgrade". > People who make the effort to report bugs: please consider how > important each bug is. If it is of major importance, the ability to > remove the bug must become part of the quality assurance manual test, > i.e. the software version is not passed as good quality until that bug > is removed. > > Testing for the success in solving the bug needs to be approved by > using 'litmus' (https://tcm.documentfoundation.org). So, the behaviour > that caused the bug needs to be recorded and entered into litmus. > > This should prevent regression bugs and improve software quality in > the long-term. > Cool. Have you *actually* installed 3.5.1rc1 (as noted in the litmus test)? Description: Test run for *3.5.1 RC* regression testing. Please use *3.5.1 RC* build to test the cases in this run. If you did (and you'd need to find it someplace other than: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ and (currently) only on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ you'd find that the install (at least on a debian linux system) smokes your existing 3.5.0 install (remember 3.5.0 is the released version). So, while I (we?) appreciate your efforts to get users on this "user" list as pre-release testers, I'd be overly cautious about asking "users" on this list to perform litmus tests... At least not without explaining in *detail* what is required, and how to avoid existing LO standard installations being blown away by a pre-release version. IMO it's probably better for 'users' on this list to wait to test/participate when http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ actually shows a pre-release version. *And* testers understand the implications of testing. This will avoid the "LO blew up my thesis" and wiped out all of my exisiting templates/files/settings. (Note: I'm not making light of those that do report such, but instead trying to avoid such reports here in the first place as they are *serious* issues & can happen if you don't understand what you are doing when you "test".) Gary Lee -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
