Hello: Thanks for the nice welcome. I will certainly be interested in looking into the apache / java regression tool. First though I will have to spend some time getting setup, so it will be a little while before I start contributing.
Thanks Matthew On 4/23/14, 1:14 PM, "Rob Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Matthew Harelick <[email protected]> >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: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
