On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, E. Naeher wrote:
In your most recent Koha newsletter you mentioned that you are looking for Koha QA testers. What's involved with this? Would one have to run Koha in a real operating library environment, or just play with it locally and try to break it? Tell me more.
Hi Eli, This is a great question, so I'd like to answer it to a wider audience. There are actually several levels of opportunity here. The simplest (and least organized) would be to just play with a local installation and try to break things then make bug reports at bugs.koha.org. The next step up would be to be an 'acceptance tester', basically this means that you'd be following (and helping to develop) a testing 'script' which you'd follow on each release candidate. This work would be coordinated by a single individual who would be responsible for letting us turn a release candidate into a 'real' release. On the development side, we also need experienced testers to help write code level functional and unit tests for a 'regression test suite'. The plan is that this suite is run at least daily against the Koha code base to ensure that we're not introducing new bugs, or re-opening old ones while we make changes and additions to Koha. We also need to find a single person who's interested (and capable) of coordinating/managing all of these functions. He or she doesn't need to be a programmer, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. I've had a couple of people contact me about various parts of this. I'm currently treading water ... I don't want to move too agressively until we've got a QA manager in place. I hope this answers your questions. -pate
Thanks,
--Eli Naeher Lower Cape Fear Historical Society