Thank you, David. This will work well. It's not late. Many thanks to the KDE Quality and Testing team.
Carl On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:07 PM, David Edmundson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote: >> The upcoming release announcement should include something about the >> quality and testing project. It was mentioned several times in beta >> and RC announcements and a lot of work went into it. >> >> Would someone here please write something about the program and the >> results it produced? It doesn't have to be extensive nor grammatically >> and otherwise perfect, but it should have interesting and pertinent >> content. Please send to [email protected]. >> >> The goal is to have the final version done by this Friday, 27 July so >> that it can be translated. If someone can provide this to kde-promo by >> Thursday, it can be included in the final version. >> >> Why was the project started? >> What effect did it have on the Quality Team? >> Were there any new contributors? >> Were new people able to be effective? >> What results were produced? >> Number of bugs found >> Number of bugs resolved >> Elimination of duplicates >> Ongoing contributors added >> >> Anything else that tells the story of what was intended and what was >> accomplished. >> > > Sorry I'm a bit late. I suck at writing, so edit anything. > > ---- > The KDE quality team was set up in April this year to maintain and > improve the levels of stability of the KDE experience. > > One of the initiatives run by the KDE Quality team was to set up a > more rigorous testing process for releases. Training was provided to > volunteer teams of beta testers and several testing days were ran. > Rather than traditional exploratory testing, testers were given > special areas to focus on which had changed since previous releases. > For several components full checklists of items to test were created > and gone through. The team found many important issues early on and > were able to make sure these were fixed. > > Special focus was made to identify any regressions from previous KDE > releases and to prioritise fixing these in order to make sure KDE is > always improving with each release. > > The testing team reporting over 163 bugs in the course of the beta and > RC releases, many of which have now been fixed. > > ---- > > Various more specific answers/facts/comments: > - 161 bugs opened officially by the people testing, but identifying > all bugs opened by people involved in the testing is a lot higher. > - 71 of these "official" bugs were resolved > - Bugsquad is a slightly seperate topic, Mamarok has closed over 1300 > in general triage. With my Quality team hat on, triage/duplicate > finding isn't really our job - however it's a lot of the same people > involved and it has a lot of crossover. > - we got some new people helping..not many, > - this was an early testing of the testing...where we were focussing > primarily on Plasma as a trail. > > Ping me if you need anything. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. > > Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set > digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. _______________________________________________ Kde-testing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
