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<small>[[Thunderbird:Home|<< Back to Thunderbird Home Page]]</small> | <small>[[Thunderbird:Home|<< Back to Thunderbird Home Page]]</small> | ||
Quality Assurance (QA) is a big space, so there are many ways you can help. Even if you have no experience, '''you''' can help make Thunderbird better. Jump in, and you too can feel you have contributed to improving the next release of Thunderbird. | |||
There are Three Areas where you can contribute to the Quality of Thunderbird. They are quickly explained below, each of them having a specific page with more details. | |||
There are Three Areas where you can contribute to the Quality of Thunderbird | |||
== '''Easy:''' Testing == | == '''Easy:''' Testing == | ||
This activity is | This activity is simple and doesn't require any special skill. You just need to not be afraid of your computer and have a bit of time to spend on the testing activities. | ||
More information [[Thunderbird:Testing/Testing|here]] if you want to help with the testing activity. | More information [[Thunderbird:Testing/Testing|here]] if you want to help with the testing activity. | ||
== '''Moderate:''' Maintaining the bug database == | == '''Moderate:''' Maintaining the bug database == | ||
The database is open to anyone who wants to let developers know about issues with Thunderbird. | The bug database aka [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org bugzilla] is the tool used by developers to track defects in the product. The database is open to anyone who wants to let developers know about issues with Thunderbird. | ||
Work in this area is based on understanding the product, the protocols and what users are seeing. No need to be too technical - but it takes time to get acquainted with how things work | Work in this area is based on understanding the product, the protocols, and what users are seeing. No need to be too technical - but it does takes time to get acquainted with how things work, so this activity is more time consuming than testing. | ||
More information on this activity can be found [[Thunderbird:Testing/bugzilla|here]]. | More information on this activity can be found [[Thunderbird:Testing/bugzilla|here]]. | ||
== '''Challenging:''' Writing automated tests == | <!-- == '''Challenging:''' Writing automated tests == | ||
This is the most technical part of the job of QA. It requires a good amount of technical knowledge | This is the most technical part of the job of QA. It requires a good amount of technical knowledge. But if you do not have the knowledge this is a good way to learn a lot of technical stuff. This involves understanding programming or learning about it. | ||
More information on writing tests is available here. | More information on writing tests is available here. | ||
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If you want to know more, just get in touch [http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23tb-qa with us] <sup>[[#number1|1]]</sup> and ask us all sorts of questions. Bear in mind that we might take a few minutes to answer - so | If you want to know more, just get in touch [http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23tb-qa with us] <sup>[[#number1|1]]</sup> and ask us all sorts of questions. Bear in mind that we might take a few minutes to answer - so please be patient. | ||
Some people that have participated and that are participating are [http://perso.hirlimann.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=interview&limit=20 sharing their reasons] - you might be the next one! | Some people that have participated and that are participating are [http://perso.hirlimann.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=interview&limit=20 sharing their reasons] - you might be the next one! | ||
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