CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

*

News:

Have a question about CiviCRM?
Get it answered quickly at the new
CiviCRM Stack Exchange Q+A site
This forum was archived on 25 November 2017. Learn more.
How to get involved.
What to do if you think you've found a bug.



  • CiviCRM Community Forums (archive) »
  • Old sections (read-only, deprecated) »
  • Developer Discussion (Moderator: Donald Lobo) »
  • Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?  (Read 1147 times)

CiviTeacher.com

  • I live on this forum
  • *****
  • Posts: 1282
  • Karma: 118
    • CiviTeacher
  • CiviCRM version: 3.4 - 4.5
  • CMS version: Drupal 6&7, Wordpress
  • MySQL version: 5.1 - 5.5
  • PHP version: 5.2 - 5.4
Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 05, 2010, 11:31:54 am
Before release, people to work on the QA on dev sites.  Most of my clients are not willing to install beta software on their production sites, and most can't afford a purely development server, but I have a dev site of my own I could spend some time testing on.
Try CiviTeacher: the online video tutorial CiviCRM learning library.

Michał Mach

  • Ask me questions
  • ****
  • Posts: 748
  • Karma: 59
    • CiviCRM site
  • CiviCRM version: latest
  • CMS version: Drupal and Joomla latest
  • MySQL version: numerous
  • PHP version: 5.3 and 5.2
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 09, 2010, 03:39:18 am
Hey,

We don't have neither formal or semi-format QA team per se, however people do join the quality assurance effort around alphas and betas. However, it would be really cool if we could establish a bit more structured group of people, who could do the quality assurance on larger and smaller issues, get them assigned in our issue tracker, etc.

So let's start putting it together. :-) I've created a wiki page, where we can start putting some thoughts on how to structure this group.

I'm thinking we could figure out some basic rules for the beginning:

* requirements - having private testing sandbox and/or pledging to putting some amount of time monthly for CiviCRM testing?
* specific kinds of tasks that could be assigned to QA team members

What else?

Thx,
m

Found this reply helpful? Contribute NOW and help us improve CiviCRM with the Make it Happen! initiative.

My absolute favourite: Wordpress Integration!.

Donate Now!

CiviTeacher.com

  • I live on this forum
  • *****
  • Posts: 1282
  • Karma: 118
    • CiviTeacher
  • CiviCRM version: 3.4 - 4.5
  • CMS version: Drupal 6&7, Wordpress
  • MySQL version: 5.1 - 5.5
  • PHP version: 5.2 - 5.4
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 09, 2010, 11:55:35 am
Cool!   Count me in for 10 hours a month.   I can work on my centos dev site.   I will post ideas on the wiki later this week
Try CiviTeacher: the online video tutorial CiviCRM learning library.

xavier

  • Forum Godess / God
  • I’m (like) Lobo ;)
  • *****
  • Posts: 4453
  • Karma: 161
    • Tech To The People
  • CiviCRM version: yes probably
  • CMS version: drupal
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 09, 2010, 04:06:33 pm
Be sure we have enough members to cover the common configurations (eg redhat vs debian vs windows...)

One class of features that isn't tested now if I'm correct is the email (testing that the mail has really been sent or testing the mailbox fetching)

X+
-Hackathon and data journalism about the European parliament 24-26 jan. Watch out the result

Michał Mach

  • Ask me questions
  • ****
  • Posts: 748
  • Karma: 59
    • CiviCRM site
  • CiviCRM version: latest
  • CMS version: Drupal and Joomla latest
  • MySQL version: numerous
  • PHP version: 5.3 and 5.2
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 10, 2010, 06:30:37 am
Xavier,

+1 on different configurations, I'll make sure that gets into the requirements list.

As for sending email, checking if the email has been really sent depends a lot on server configuration, so testing it is more like checking specific setup, not just the code.

Speaking of testing, another set of QA team's assignments could be contributing unit tests and webtests. :-)

Thx,m
Found this reply helpful? Contribute NOW and help us improve CiviCRM with the Make it Happen! initiative.

My absolute favourite: Wordpress Integration!.

Donate Now!

xavier

  • Forum Godess / God
  • I’m (like) Lobo ;)
  • *****
  • Posts: 4453
  • Karma: 161
    • Tech To The People
  • CiviCRM version: yes probably
  • CMS version: drupal
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 10, 2010, 07:21:05 am
Quote from: Michał Mach on August 10, 2010, 06:30:37 am
Speaking of testing, another set of QA team's assignments could be contributing unit tests and webtests. :-)

That's one of the stuff I added on the wiki indeed.

X+
-Hackathon and data journalism about the European parliament 24-26 jan. Watch out the result

Michał Mach

  • Ask me questions
  • ****
  • Posts: 748
  • Karma: 59
    • CiviCRM site
  • CiviCRM version: latest
  • CMS version: Drupal and Joomla latest
  • MySQL version: numerous
  • PHP version: 5.3 and 5.2
Re: Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?
August 10, 2010, 07:39:58 am
Sweet! I'll read through it and come back with remarks here.

Thx,m
Found this reply helpful? Contribute NOW and help us improve CiviCRM with the Make it Happen! initiative.

My absolute favourite: Wordpress Integration!.

Donate Now!
Pages: [1]
  • CiviCRM Community Forums (archive) »
  • Old sections (read-only, deprecated) »
  • Developer Discussion (Moderator: Donald Lobo) »
  • Is there a (semi)formal QA team? And if so can I join?

This forum was archived on 2017-11-26.