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Chandler Community QA

There are many things you can do to help out with the Chandler project in the QA department and not all of them require being able to code. There are both technical and non-technical aspects of it. Here's an overview of the different ways you can help:

1. Get an account in bugzilla

To be able to help out with any of the QA activities, you first need to create an account in bugzilla.

2. Reporting bugs by running the manual tests

You can help by executing the manual testcases against Chandler. You can start out by downloading the nightly builds from our builds server. Linux testers are particularly welcome. The use case scenarios are listed in the various specs here: Planning.DesktopZeroDotSeven. Before submitting a bug report, search bugzilla for the open bugs to make sure the bug has not already been reported. If it has, then feel free to add any extra details you can. Read the bug writing guidelines before submitting a new bug.

3. Finding regressions by running the acceptance tests

If you have only a few hours to spare, you can help by running the Acceptance tests on the latest nightly build. This would help us catch any regressions introduced in the new builds.

4. Reporting bugs by running the automated functional tests

You can also help by running the automated functional tests in Chandler. All the information for checking out the test scripts and executing them is available from the CATS page. For the testcases that fail, you can create a bug report in bugzilla after searching the open bugs list.

5. Developing additional functional tests

If you are a Python developer, you can help by developing additional testscripts for Chandler for the various components. Chandler's test scripts have been written in Python using the in-house developed test framework called CATS. You can read more about CATS architecture, libraries and test scripts from the CATS page.

6. Verifying Resolved bugs

We have lots of bugs that are in Resolved but unVerified state. You can help by going over the list of Resolved bugs, verifying if they have indeed been resolved and marking them Verified Fixed or Reopening them. Here are the bugs that have been fixed in the last 60 days that have not yet been verified.

7. Resolving duplicate bugs

Scanning through the list of open bugs and marking duplicate bugs.

8. Running cross-platform tests

A number of bugs reported on Chandler have reproduced on a single platform. We need volunteers who can verify the behaviour on the other platforms and document it in bugzilla.

9. Join Bug Fests on IRC

Stay tuned on our dev mailing list (dev@osafoundation.org) for regular bug fests on IRC. We do collaborative testing of Chandler during which we file new bugs, verify or reopen resolved bugs and exchange usability feedback. We are on irc.freenode.net in #osaf-qa.

10. Use our tools and contribute

QA tools are stored in our qa svn repository.

svn checkout http://svn.osafoundation.org/qa/ qatools

or

svn checkout http://svn.osafoundation.org/qa/trunk qatrunk

If you wish to contribute you can come in to irc.freenode.net in #osaf-qa to find out what we need done and/or who to send a diff to.

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