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From: "Shakhar Dasgupta" <shakhardasgupta(a)gmail.com>
To: test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 7:44:51 AM
Subject: Introduction
Hi,
I am Shakhar Dasgupta. I am a college sophomore majoring in SUNY Oswego. I
started using Linux when I was in High School. My first distro was Ubuntu
but I soon tried out Fedora as well. Now, I primarily use Fedora. Primarily,
I got Linux experience just by using it. However, now I am taking a Systems
Programming class which has a lot of low level programming. I want to be
involved with the Fedora project and think that QA is a good starting point.
Thank you,
Shakhar Dasgupta
Hey Shakhar,
First of all, Welcome and thanks for showing your interest in Fedora QA. To get started
you need a FAS account and your FAS should be sponsored. You can create your FAS account
(assuming you don't have one)
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/.
You will require a membership to Fedora QA group to proceed and you can get apply for
'qa' in here [
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/list/]
You can start off by testing updates in [
http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/] for Fedora 24
and Fedora 25 . Update testing is where a tester tests a package and gives out a +1 Karma
for PASS and -1 Karma for FAIL. You can go to
bodhi.fedoraproject.org where you can sort
the packages with Fedora Releases and tags viz "pending" &
"testing" . You can read much about update testing here [1]. You can also, use
fedora-easy-karma for giving out feedbacks.
you can start with Release Validation testing. In Release Validation all you need to do
is to check the nightly/TC/RC against certain criteria. For example, let's take the
latest branched (Fedora 26 Branched 20170307.n.0), you can run test cases which are
mentioned [2] and submit your results in the test matrix.
Note that each of the test cases[3] will have "How to test" section which will
have the steps (to be executed sequentially) and if the results match with the expected
results you can mark it as pass by editing the wiki page
{{result|PASS|<fas_username>}} . Always make sure to check for "Associated
release criterion" which can be found on the top of test case page , if your test
case fails you can mark it fail by editing the wiki page
{{result|FAIL|<fas_username>}} and file a bug at RHBZ [4] under Fedora.
You can always find the ‘current’ validation pages using these addresses:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Server_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Cloud_Test
[
1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing
[
2]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_26_Branched_20170307...
[
3]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_stick_Live_luc
[
4]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Thanks
Sumantrom