Hi *,
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 08:48:29AM -0400, Stephen Frank wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> For me as a QA volunteer, priority is the first thing I look at when trying
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> >> to verify an issue.
> >
> >In my opintion, QA should not care about priority. Devels should. But
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> >not QA.
QA should not ignore issues with lower prio just because there are fewer
issues with higher priority.
By priotirizing the ones with high prio, you basically doom the others
to rot.
> >> I go for P2 issues first (usually to check to see if I
> >> need to downgrade them), then I move on to P3 issues. As I said before, it
> >> is easier (for me at least) to downgrade an issue to P3 than upgrade a P3
> >> issue to P2.
> >
> >Why is that? Why is it easier to downgrade than to upgrade?
>
> You say above the QA should not care about priority, and to a certain
> extent I think this is true. [...]
It seems you completely misunderstood my point. See above.
This is one big reason I am hesitant to
> [...]
> As a QA volunteer, I use two things to determine which issues I QA
> first. First is priority (because it helps me narrow down the list of
> 600+ issues waiting for QA).
And I say: QA should not do that. Every issue filed should be of the
same importance for QA.
If the issue is important, others will stumble upon it anyway and it
will be handled sooner or later. With low-prios issue this is not the
case, they will just sit there waiting for confirmation for months.
This is a bad thing.
> Second is what area of the product it is
> (I try to QA things for the product components I understand the best).
> My thought is that I should care about priority so that I can look at
> the higher priority issues first so as to spare developers wasted time
> with unconfirmable high priority issues.
If people don't get to set the prio on fake issues themselves (i.e.
don't offer that in the bug-form), you won't have that problem. QA
should set a higher prio if necessary.
Given your statements, I don't understand why you're advocating to add a
priotiry-control to the bug-form.
ciao
Christian
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