[Server-devel] A good intro to QA?

[Bryan Berry]

thanks a lot Kim, this is extremely helpful
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 10:06 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> My best advice to you is to document everything you do. Use a
> spreadsheet or a wiki page if you don't have a good database system.
> 
> Here are some of the thinks I have found useful:
> 
> 1 - Document the test case separately from its execution (you'll find
> some test cases in links below)
> 2 - For each execution of a test, track the date, time, build
> information, and any setup, initialization that you might have done
> before starting, and the result
> 3 - When you do find problems, you can recreate the run -- and you
> have all the info for a good bug report. Link the test case run to the
> bug report.
> 4 - Document the bugs found and how to work around them in human
> readable form (so the next person, with less technical background
> doesn't have to go through what you did) - this level of documentation
> becomes the 'release note' for a build. 
> 
> Item #4 is really, really important since we never get to a bugless
> product -- but if we understand the bug and can explain work arounds,
> then the quality of the system just improved tremendously.
> 
> Since you are doing this focused effort... please add your findings to
> the release notes that have been started for build 703:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes
> 
> For things to test, please look at the wiki pages with test scenarios
> for both the XO and the XS:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Stories_Testing (use case testing. This
> might be where you want to start; including the 1 hour smoke test)
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Update.1
> (links to many other test cases; skim this to decide where you want to
> focus. Items here are more technical, less 'use case')
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Schoolserver_Testing
> 
> Also, use the 'Testing' link from the main page to skim around all the
> ideas related to testing. Please understand that we haven't had anyone
> keeping up all these pages so some tests will be out of date. If you
> can fix any of them up (based on how the product really works today),
> or if you want to add some, that would be great!
> 
> Focus on the things that are important for your deployment first.
> 
> Good luck! Hope you find things to add to the release notes for
> others!
> Kim
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         I will spend the next 7 days locked in our office doing QA on
>         150 XO's,
>         the XS, and our Access Points.
>         
>         I don't have much work experience doing large-scale QA. Can
>         someone
>         point me to a free on-line resource of how to do it well?
>         
>         thanks
>         
>         Bryan
>         Kathmandu
>         
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