[haiku] Re: Dedicated Haiku QA (testing) team
- From: Dennis Catt <cattmail@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:54:09 -0400
I guess my next question is…
Who (leaders of the Haiku project) needs to give the blessing on this endeavor
so we can start to get the ball rolling?
-Dennis
On Jul 6, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 06.07.2012 01:03, Dennis Catt wrote:
>> I'm guessing no official development methods (e.g., agile, etc...) are
>> being practiced and it's basically iterative development hitting
>> semi-planned milestones (judging from what I see in Trac)?
>
> Well, it's the standard open source development method :-)
> People work on things that interest them much, and sometimes even on things
> that block a release.
>
> Having said that, we're always trying to have our trunk in a good shape, so
> that it makes sense to not just start testing a week before a planned release.
> Many things should be tested continuously (well, every now and then will do).
>
> Another thing we should definitely work towards is getting our unit tests up
> again, and have them executed after each release. I don't know if Trac's
> Bitten could be used for this, or if we should prefer other things like
> BuildBot.
> I seem to remember there was work towards getting a BuildBot up and running
> -- how much did that proceed?
>
>> http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TestManagerForTracPlugin
>
> This looks pretty nice, and may help with setting up reproducible test plan.
> I guess we would set up testing cycles (for example monthly during normal
> development, weekly in the month before a release), and see how it goes then.
> Maybe it's not necessary to test each thing the same number of times when
> time is limited.
>
> In any case, I'm looking forward to this.
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
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