[Testing] Community-based testing of OLPC activities

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Kim Quirk wrote:
>
>> Thanks for putting this together. I think the matrix of test plans is
>> a good idea. We had tried to create something like this at
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Stories_Testing site. Yours is a more
>> friendly and probably easier to use, so it would be great if you can
>> incorporate your look/style with the test plans and info that are
>> there.

Greg, feel free to trial ideas directly on our wiki; and merge pages that 
seem similar.

I like structured data.  Wikis have a simpleminded view of this, but
it's useful for gathering one's thoughts.

>> The kind of reporting we need is: date/timestamp for each run; tester;
>> pass/fail results; link to bugs
>> Do you think that can be done in the wiki?
> We can certainly try.  More overhead == harder, but so long as the template 
> is simple, it should be manageable.  Mostly, what you need is someone who's 
> committed to improving the process over time.

Quite right.  With some template like:

{{activity-test|date|tester|result|bugs}}


SJ