The QA Problem

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 13:05:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:41 -0500, Will Woods wrote:
> Problem #1: Testing currently requires a lot of skill, which reduces
> usable manpower.
> 
> We lack how-to-test documents, so each tester must know how to set up
> and test any given package/feature on his own. New features don't
> necessarily come with much documentation (e.g. iSCSI).
> 
> - Possible solution(s): More docs would lower the barrier to entry.
> Setting up an official Fedora QA group will help keep track of team
> strength and help everyone work together.

FWIW, the Docs team is willing to help with this part to the extent we
can.  Since we don't know your methodology, it's significantly harder to
draft this ourselves. :-)  Getting the stuff into maintainable, easily
digestible form and publishing/advertising it, though, we can and should
help do.

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