Hello all,
As discussed at the committer meetings earlier this week, starting next
week we are going to try out "(In)Sanity Testing Mondays". The community
is invited to join in.
The goal here is to improve our overall quality substantially with a
small investment. The testing is NOT intended to take a day, or even
half a day - we are targeting 1 hour for testing each week. So clearly
this won't be a deep-dive into each test that you run, it's more of a
quick high-level sanity test. If there is a particular area you are
concerned with, please feel free to spend more time there and less in
other areas, but you do need to run each test that is assigned to you.
On Monday morning, in your time zone, ensure that you have the latest
build and start. We will be running Ensemble and Modena and other tests
but anything is fair game. Committers will have various assignments and
platforms but these are not set in stone until the end of time.
You don't need to put together any type of formal report, but we
encourage everyone to be online, reading email and available by IM while
running the tests to discuss results real time as necessary. File JIRA
for any new bugs you find and call it done! Be sure to check the One
True Dashboard to see of your bug has been found already.
https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11893
At the next committer meeting and on the list, we'll be discussing how
things went and how we want to modify and improve the process going
forward, so be prepared with your feedback. None of this is set in
stone, so if it doesn't go well, don't despair - we intend to tweak this
until it does work well.
Cheers, and happy testing!
Lisa, Kevin and Steve
