Re: [tdf-discuss] QA Infrastructure

Hi Thorsten,

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Thorsten Behrens
<thb@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as we start to ramp up more infrastructure, I'd like to make
> you think about what's crucially needed to do QA for LibreOffice
> 3.3.
>
> First of all, this is what we currently have:
>
>  * a LibreOffice technical list (I'd like to have devs & QA
>   discussion there):
>   http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
>
>  * a bugtracker - bugs.freedesktop.org for the while
>   (use
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_formatspecifi
c&order
> relevance+desc&bug_status__open__&productLibreOffice&content   �
�to list all currently-filed LibreOffice bugs)
>  * a wiki (well, soon ;))
>
>  * the testtool (similar to OpenOffice.org)
>
> I'd prefer if we do the 3.3 release in a somewhat lightweight
> fashion, and add tools as we go (and decide that we need them) - I
> know that the OpenOffice.org QA project has things like QATrack,
> QUASTe, and TCM - but I wonder which of those pass the test of "we
> really need it, and it's worth the effort to duplicate it/set it
> up".
>
> What do you think?

Sorry to jump so late in the discussion, I've been out of connexion
most of the week.
I agree with your proposal to join developers and QA people, it's
really important to have them working together.
Concerning the VCLTestTool, the most interesting part is if you can
compare between builds and languages like it is done on QUASTe. I
should ask also if some teams use the screenshot ability for
localization.
Concerning the TCM, I've worked on specifications for a new tool that
is being develop and will be integrated to QUASTe. The current
infrastructure for TCM is far too complicated and mix administrative
tasks and user tasks. Also, we need something that deal with plain
text and not html. I volunteer to work on this if you need me and also
to produce the test cases relative to the new features.
Also, we should not miss the power of the NLC on this testing tasks,
if we organize a simple and powerful workflow with a localization
process, I'm sure we will find a huge resource with the NLC projects.

HTH
Kind regards
Sophie

>

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