On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Anetha Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob > > My name is Anetha and love to test. > > My account is [email protected]. >
Excellent! I just added you to the qa-team group in Bugzilla. So you now have permissions to edit defect reports. I also assigned you a small batch of user-submitted defect reports to review. I belief you said before that you are a Mac user, so I sent you OSX ones. Thanks! -Rob > Pl assign me on a project or on a defect to test. > > Thanks > > Anetha > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mickey Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I know nothing about testing software, only using it. I'm very familiar >> > most of MicroSoft Office programs, but not OpenOffice. I'd appreciate >> some >> > help. >> >> Hi Mickey, >> >> Take a look at some example defect reports from our Bugzilla issue tracker: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121637 >> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121583 >> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121412 >> >> To contribute effectively to QA you don't necessarily need experience >> with QA. Testing is as much an attitude and a disciplined, methodical >> mindset as it is about specific knowledge. But you do need to know >> enough about the product you are testing to be able to review defect >> reports like the above, and try to confirm them. So you need a good >> general knowledge of the product, not necessarily a "power user" but >> at least a good solid working knowledge. >> >> So if you are not familiar with OpenOffice at all, I'd recommend >> installing it and start using it in your daily work. You can find >> tutorials and user guides linked on our documentation page: >> >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation >> >> One approach would be to specialize. For example, starting with only >> spreadsheets (Calc) or only presentations (Impress). >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > >> > Mickey >> > > > > -- > S.Anetha
