Testing

Hello all, A late update for tomorrows WebQA hosted test day, Friday 2011-09-09. WebQA won’t be hosting a test day this week. I had planned on a day of working to expand the Selenium coverage on Socorro (aka Breakpad … akaCrashstats). Of the many reasons I can think of it mainly comes down to I’ve been overrun with work and can’t sustainably host this tomorrow. This is not to say that the backlog of tests to be automated is small, in fact with the help of Tobias Markus (our wonderful intern) it has ceaselessly grown as he’s dug through the existing testcases during hisgap analysis. ...

Mozilla will be hosting a talk by Lanette Creamer, aka, The Testy Redhead on June 14 at 12:00pm which is open to the public and will be streamed live on air.mozilla.com. Lanette will be speaking about testing for the user experience with workflow testing: Customers who are so delighted with a product or service that they will tell others are a magnificent asset which every company wishes to retain and attract. While we have many ways to test for code stability, features, and functionality, there are not as many test methodologies that explore reporting on the overall user experience. ...

Last month as part of Mozilla’s QA tech talk series Shmuel spoke about exploratory testing and in particular an open source tool that he authored. I apologize for the delay however I’m happy to have a link to the ogg video for those of you who couldn’t be present for the live viewing. Enjoy and feel free to ping me or Shmuel with questions. Shmuel’s Tech Talk (ogg video)

As part of Mozilla’s continuing QA tech talk series I’d like to invite you to Shmuel Gerhon’s presentation on exploratorytesting. The author of Rapid Reporter and a QA technical lead at Intel’s Jerusalem Campus, he is convinced that the most significant factor in our quest for quality is people, not features or technology. That a whole team approach is a necessity when advocating for a quality product. :: writes at gershon.info :: tweets at @sgershon ...

Keeping this brief … If writing Selenium tests excites you and you would like to contribute we need your help. On March 29th, 2011 Mozilla’s WebQA Team is hosting a test day. If you’re interested in finding out more please reach out to us. March 29th Test Day