[Testing] Activity Testing Matrix

SJ Klein sj at laptop.org
Tue Nov 13 11:10:37 EST 2007


Not really.   [[Activity bundle] and [[creating an activity]] both exist; 
the list of things that Must Be Done should be linked form the top of the 
[[activity]] page...

SJ

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>> 
>> I like it.  Also, during phase one, we need to tell activity developers the 
>> other things they should be doing : versioning their activity, putting both 
>> source links and links to an .xo file online, adding metadata and test 
>> plans. Ditto for library bundle creators; bundles are bundles.
>
> Absolutely.  So I guess *I* need to understand all the things that an 
> activity developer needs to be doing, heh.
>
> Is there one good page that contains the canonical information for "what an 
> activity developer must to do get their activity ready for prime time"?
>
> --g
>
>> SJ
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> So looks like folks are starting to try it out.
>>> 
>>> Here's what I'd like to do next.
>>> 
>>> Phase One, PUBLICIZE TO DEVELOPERS.  I want every activity developer to 
>>> know that *this is the place* to link their activities and plans for 
>>> testing.  So I would like to send an email where activity developers will 
>>> read it.  Should this note go to devel at laptop.org?  sugar at laptop.org? 
>>> Other places?
>>> 
>>> After developers have had a few days to (a) put their activity info up on 
>>> the matrix, (b) try to puzzle out test cases, (c) point out the places 
>>> where the process is probably busted, and (d) complain about how terribly 
>>> inefficient a wiki-based system is for QA (heh), I'd like to move on to...
>>> 
>>> Phase Two, PUBLICIZE TO EVERYONE ELSE.  And I mean *everyone* else. Fedora 
>>> folks, Ubuntu folks, Debian folks, SuSE folks.  LUG mailing lists. 
>>> Slashdot. Digg.  The message should look like this: "OLPC needs your help, 
>>> RIGHT NOW. All you need is a modern Linux distro (or even a Windows 
>>> machine) and a couple of hours a day for the next several weeks, and you 
>>> can be intimately involved in the most important software project in the 
>>> history of mankind."
>>> 
>>> Any objection to this plan?  Pointers?  Comments?
>>> 
>>> --g
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Greg DeKoenigsberg
>>> Community Development Manager
>>> Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
>>> "To whomsoever much hath been given...
>>> ...from him much shall be asked"
>>> 
>> 
>
> -- 
> Greg DeKoenigsberg
> Community Development Manager
> Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
> "To whomsoever much hath been given...
> ...from him much shall be asked"
>


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