Hi everyone, Chris McMahon (cmcmahon) is our latest addition to the committer list.
Rob On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’d like to welcome Chris McMahon to the Platform Engineering team as > our new QA Lead. Chris has a long history working in software > testing, coming to us most recently from Sentry Data Systems where he > was responsible for test automation. One particularly relevant bit of > experience from Chris’s past was his work at Socialtext on their wiki > product, expanding the Selenium-based automated test suite from 400 > individual assertions to 10,000 over the span of two years. > > Chris is also active in the outside community. He leads the Writing > About Testing group and annual conference, which he founded in 2009. > He also helped design and build the SeleNesse testing framework, which > is a wiki-based tool for building acceptance tests that get executed > by Selenium. > > In his role as QA Lead here, Chris will be responsible for figuring > out what sorts of testing process we can bring to MediaWiki > development. His first task will to join in on the tail end of the > 1.19 deployment process, helping us with whatever last minute testing > that makes sense at this stage, but then he’ll have the much larger > task of looking at our release and deployment process generally, and > figure out which parts would most benefit from the injection of > testing rigor. He’ll also be responsible for establishing a more > coordinated volunteer effort around testing. > > Chris will be working remotely from his home in Durango, Colorado. > > Welcome, Chris! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
