QA/TCM

Case Conductor

Summary

QA has been using litmus.mozilla.org for the past 5-6 years and it's serviced the community semi-appropriately during that time. Unfortunately, as the community plans to scale up, the current codebase is not an appropriate fit and needs to be replaced by a better scalable tool in terms of usability and functionality.

Mission Goals

1. Replace litmus.mozilla.org with a more modern tool
2. Build a more intuitive and useful manual testcase manager
3. Offer a better extensibility to interface with other tools

Weekly Meeting

• Every Tuesday @ 11:00am Pacific Time
• +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 490 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 490 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 490 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #tcm for backchannel discussion

Team

• PM & QA
  • Cameron Dawson [:camd]
• Second in QA
  • Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]
• QA
  • Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]
• Django Dev
  • Carl Meyer [:carljm]
• UI Designer
  • Eric Meyer [:ericam]
• JavaScript Dev
  • Jonny Meyer [:jonnygm]

Contribute

We need your help to make sure TCM is equal or better than Litmus in every area we need in QA.

To help, you can:

1. Think about your current workflow with Litmus
2. Check out the staging site and play with it
   1. Please keep in mind it's under development and incomplete
   2. Some areas are only "wireframes." If you see a tab at the bottom of the page that says, "wireframe" or "incomplete" then odds are it's not functional, just to show how it WILL look.
3. If there's something missing (remember it's not done yet) then check TCM Tracker to see if we plan to address it. If you don't want to check tracker, that's ok. I can do some vetting.
4. Enter a user story! Enter the story in Bugzilla first, and I will vet it, and prioritize it in Tracker. Your workflow matters!

Or if you'd rather just chat about it, that's great too. Please come find me (Cameron) and we'll talk.

Resources

Staging Site	cc.oddsites.net
User Stories	CC Tracker
Enter Story	New User Story
IRC	#caseconductor on irc.mozilla.org
Blog	Blog
Forum	Google Group

Planning Documents

• User Story Cookbook
• Metrics of Success
• Litmus Migration Plan
• Environment Examples
• Alpha Feature Status

Product Management

You can view the current state of the user stories here:

• Pivotal Tracker - CC

Note: New user stories and bugs are entered in Bugzilla first. Then Tracker will import them and we will prioritize them. This allows people to watch progress in Bugzilla as well.

Planned Releases

Milestone	Milestone Focus	Feature Complete
0.3	Results	5/25/2011
0.4	Product mgmt User mgmt Test mgmt Environment mgmt	6/20/2011
0.5	More mgmt work Running tests Litmus to TCM migration tool	tbd
0.6	More running tests More test mgmt	tbd
0.7	Authentication Community mgmt	tbd
Beta	fix it	tbd
RC	release it	tbd

Information

General

• Howto on triaging bugs

Technical

• TCM Front-End code is located on on Github.
• TCM Platform code is located on on Github.
• Bugs can be filed using a handy form
• To see a list of already filed bugs, please take a look at a generic query for the TCM component
• Jenkins Status for platform and automation

Marlena's brain dump about testing with tcm's and wikis