E-P Hi, I've been working around Mer on device adaptation and Plasma Active integration and would be very interested in getting involved in setting up some of my devices as part of this QA process.
I have a number of ARM targets which I hopefully could put to good use in a QA role. I will be at the proposed meeting to discuss further, BR vgrade On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Esa-Pekka Miettinen < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Lately there has been some discussion in the Mer IRC channel about the > Mer’s quality assurance (QA). The purpose of the QA is to define > processes and tools for measuring and monitoring the quality of the > Mer project and its releases. > > 1. What is needed? > > For the first we should define a testing process: when the tests are > executed and how often, where the tests are executed and what is the > test content. > > I recommend that we start the QA process with testing the prelease > image on x86 chroot environment with simple test content. After this > we can expand the test content, automate the process and support other > architectures and devices. Also in the (near) future, the test > automation should be part of the review process. > > 2. QA Tools and tests > > We can reuse many of tools and test packages which were used in MeeGo > project, like testrunner-lite, OTS, QA-Reports, test-definition, > testplanner, min etc. > Only issues is that we should move those tools which are not > maintained anymore from meego.gitorious to some other location. One > idea could be that we create own project for developing and > maintaining the QA tools. That project would offer released QA > toolchain to Mer project and Mer's vendors. And also for other > projects. > > 3. Infra > > For the Mer QA we need some infra: > - Test result reporting (QA-Reports will be enough, will require one > virtual machine) > - Test management (Git may be enough) > - Test farm (One server and couple workers, not urgent yet) > > I created a wiki page for QA related stuff into Mer wiki: > http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Quality > > I am proposing an initial QA meeting to take place in #mer-meeting on > Tuesday’s starting 11:00 UTC (before Mer release management meeting). > > Please share your ideas and thoughts (and wild dreams). > > Thanks, > -Esa-Pekka Miettinen > > >
