On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Matthew Harelick <msharel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > My name is Matthew. I am from northeast United States. I have been > involved with functional testing and system testing for about 9 years. I > have been writing test automation for about 15 years. This is my first open > source project. I will probably get involved in development as well, but I > would like to learn a lot more about the product , so QA is the place to do > that. The technology I know from work experience is Linux, Java, C++, > Python, Windows, .NET, and C#. The technology I have access to for the > purpose of open source assistance is Mac OS, iPad, python, java, Windows 7. > I have built test automation for GUI¹s , Linux based command line > applications, messaging based applications, and .NET based applications. >
Hello Matthew, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! I'm in the NE as well, in Massachusetts. You list an impressive range of skills. We have a Java/Eclipse based GUI automation testing tool for OpenOffice, where test cases are written in Java, but it has been neglected recently, since relatively few QA volunteers know Java. Maybe you want to take a look at it? In general we're in the end game for the OpenOffice 4.1 release, hoping to release before the end of the month. I'd expect another Release Candidate (RC4) in the next few days. They'll be some targeted testing to verify some fixes, but it will be very limited. It is a good time to regroup and plan for what we want to do for QA on the next release. Have you seen our New Volunteer Orientation page? It has a bunch of information useful for new volunteers, about Apache, about the OpenOffice project, as well as a specific page about QA: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/ Scan over those pages at your leisure. The QA page will deserve more attention since it will lead you to get signed up for the right mailing lists, wikis, Testlink, Bugzilla -- the tools we use for QA. Feel free to post back to the list with any questions. I or one of the other volunteers will try to help. Regards, -Rob > I am following the instructions, so I do not yet have a Bugzilla ore test > link account. > > Matthew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org
