Dear Colleagues As some of you may be aware, I have been developing a Quality Assurance Process for Access Grids to help improve the overall AccessGrid experience. Well I am happy to announce to I have began quality assurance testing some of the Australian Access Grids.
Dues to complications, I have had to setup and configured a temporary website (http://accessgrid-qa.cqu.edu.au/) that lists all of the Access Grids that have been quality assured, which also has a link to it from the agcentral website. The webpage reads data from a database that contains all of the results from each of the QA Tests conducted. I have just finished Quality Assurance testing of the UQueensland AG node in which it has now been given Quality Assured Status. It is hoped that in the New Year, with the help of others, I might also be able to instruct/train other AG colleagues to become testers of Access Grids within their own region. I am hopeful that once a few technique difficulties are resolved, that everything, including that QA database and results, will reside on AG central. A "Green" tick that will reside beside each of the AG nodes within the agcentral node listings will indicate a node that has been quality assured. Those who would like more information on the Quality Assured process, you are welcome to investigate the following: * http://agcentral.org/Members/jbell/qatesting/agtest to find out the requirements for the quality assurance process. * http://agcentral.org/help/tutorial/qualityhelper to obtain hints and tips on getting your Access Grid Node up to the required high standard. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks for your time, Jason. -------------------------------------------- Jason Bell, B.I.T. B. Info. Tech. (Honours) Student Network Engineer Information Technology Division Central Queensland University High Performance Computing Support Officer Central Queensland University Research Assistant to the Nonlinear Intelligent Systems Research Group Faculty of Informatics & Communication Central Queensland University E-mail : j.b...@cqu.edu.au Phone : 07 4930 9229 -------------------------------------------- Patience is a virtue. But if I wanted Patience, I would have become a Doctor. --------------------------------------------
