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== '''Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Wiki!''' ==
<small>[[QA|&laquo; QA Home Page]]</small>
 
== Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Wiki! ==
As our Mozilla community grows, this page will provide a central place for QA volunteers to help us better organize, plan, and execute our community testing.  Any documentation or information that you feel will benefit our QA efforts is welcome here.   
As our Mozilla community grows, this page will provide a central place for QA volunteers to help us better organize, plan, and execute our community testing.  Any documentation or information that you feel will benefit our QA efforts is welcome here.   


== '''Hot Events''' ==
== <font color=red> '''Hot Events''' </font> ==
* Check back soon for information about our next test event!
* [http://quality.mozilla.org/events/testdays  Test Days on Friday!]
* Come to [http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days Bugday] every Tuesday.
 
== '''Community Events''' ==
* '''[[QA/Community/Bug_Day | Bug Days]]''' - Every other Tuesday, we will be gathering in #bugday to focus our efforts on bug tasks in Bugzilla.
* '''[[QA/Community/Test_Day | Test Days]]''' - We will often need your help testing new features or a new release, so we will be holding regular test days to give you a chance to try out the latest builds and test around new fixes and features.
*'''[[QA/Community/Dev_Day | Developer Day 2008]]''' - In 2008 we are formulating plans to host a QA Developer Day.
 
== <font color=darkorange> '''Community Projects''' </font> ==
* [[QA/Community/QMO Discoverability | '''QMO Discoverability Project''']]
: The QMO Discoverability page will help the QA team track our progress as we strive to improve QMO. We will certainly need community input and help along the way, so please check it regularly and continue to read the QA Blog for updates.
 
* [[QA/Community/Betatesters Mailing List | '''Betatesters Mailing List''']]
: This mailing list that will be devoted exclusively to individuals and teams who are interested in providing valuable test coverage before we release our 3.0.x and 2.0.0.x branch security and stability releases as well our trunk (pre-Firefox 3.1) releases. [Note: This is a not a list for people who are interested in beta testing. Please read the description to see if you meet the criteria to be on the list.]
 
* [[QA/Community/QMO Localization | '''QMO Localization''']]
: This is a community effort to localize content on QMO to different languages.  Many of our community members can benefit from QMO, and we want to make it easier for them to get involved.
 
* [[QA/Community/Mozilla University | '''Mozilla University''']]
: In an effort to get more students and professors interested in open source software and inspire them to join the Mozilla Community, we will be working with the Mozilla Campus Reps program to reach out to high schools and universities around the world.  We plan to build a Mozilla University website that will be a landing page for anyone interested in getting started with Mozilla.  From there, we can educate folks on the basics, and point them to more valuable online resources to help them become active members of the Mozilla Community.
 
* [[QA/Community/Litmus Testcase Maintenance| '''Litmus Testcase Maintenance''']]
: Details forthcoming.
 
* [[QA/Website Testing | '''Website Testing''']]
It is important for us to check that major websites display and work correctly. According to this target we are building categorized lists of all those websites. Our community is welcome to give feedback on company websites they are customers.


== '''Who We Are''' ==
== '''Who We Are''' ==
Aside from the few of us [http://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaQualityAssurance:Home_Page#Who_We_Are working at Mozilla], there are many volunteers that help us with Mozilla QA.  In order to get to know each other, feel free to add an entry to [[Mozilla Testers]] and tell us more about yourselfHow long have you been a Mozilla volunteer and/or user? Where are you from and what do you do when you're not testing/hacking for Mozilla?
The Mozilla Quality Assurance team is made up of a unique community of internal employees and the public community of those who love the Mozilla products. We are constantly seeking solid volunteers who can dedicate their time to help us test our features and make a solid product!
 
* [[QA/whois |The Mozilla QA team]]
* [[QA/Community/Team|The Mozilla QA Community team]]
 
Please feel free to join our Mozilla QA Community Team!  Just click the ''Mozilla QA Community team'' link above and tell us more about yourself:
**How long have you been a Mozilla Volunteer and/or user?
**Where are you from?
**What do you enjoy doing when you're not testing/hacking for Mozilla?
 
You can also subscribe to the community QA team alias by registering here: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/communityqateam
** email: communityqateam@mozilla.org


== '''How Can You Help?''' ==
== '''How Can You Help?''' ==
* Most of our updates and calls for help will be posted at the [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/ Mozilla QA Blog]
* Most of our updates and calls for help will be posted at [http://quality.mozilla.org QMO (quality.mozilla.org)]
* Tell us how we can work together better by sharing your thoughts and ideas in the [[Mozilla_QA_Community:Suggestion Box|Suggestion Box]]
* Tell us how we can work together better by sharing your thoughts and ideas in the [[QA/Suggestions|Suggestion Box]]
== '''Community Test Days''' ==
* Keep up with [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] bugs by watching your favorite components.  Help us investigate new issues by signing up on the [[QA/Community/Bug Watchers | Bug Watchers List]].
* We will have regular '''Basic Functional Testing (BFT)''' events during important stages of our release cycles. They will provide you with a great way to get involved and give both Firefox and Thunderbird a complete workout while you test all the latest features and bug fixesThe full suite of BFT tests can be found through [http://testrunner.mozilla.org/test.cgi Testrunner]. The MoFo QA team will create test runs there during BFT events that you can use to guide you.
* Help us make the Mozilla platform more accessible to people with disabilities by visiting the [[Accessibility/Testing|Accessibility Testing Wiki]]
 
== '''Contact Us''' ==
* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/ QA Blog]
* New Group: mozilla.dev.quality
** News Server: news.mozilla.org
* IRC: #qa
** Server: irc.mozilla.org Channel: #qa
** [http://irc.mozilla.org/ Info about IRC]
** [[Mozilla_QA_Community:Firefox_1.5_RC3_Community_Test_Day#Where_do_I_start.3F| IRC clients]]
* email: qa@mozilla.org


* As Mozilla continues to innovate the web experience through new features, we will need to make sure we thoroughly test any new functionality introduced in Firefox and Thunderbird.  In order to ensure we catch any regressions and identify critical bugs quickly, we will occassionally have special '''New Feature Testing (NFT)''' events.  When we do, we will post to the QA blog and also provide a test plan here that includes more information about the feature, any current bugs, test cases, and instructions on how to provide feedback.
== Future Events? ==
** Upcoming...
* As Mozilla continues to innovate the web experience through new features, we will need to make sure we thoroughly test any new functionality introduced in Firefox and Thunderbird.  In order to ensure we catch any regressions and identify critical bugs quickly, we will occasionally have special '''New Feature Testing (NFT)''' events.  When we do, we will post to the QA blog and also provide a test plan here that includes more information about the feature, any current bugs, test cases, and instructions on how to provide feedback.
*** Stay tuned!
** Previous Test days:
*** [[Mozilla QA Community:Firefox 1.5.0.1 RC1 Community Test Day | Firefox 1.5.0.1 RC1 Community Test Day - Jan 19th, 2006]]
*** [[Mozilla_QA_Community:Firefox1.5.0.1_Smoketest_Day | Firefox 1.5.0.1 Community Smoketest Day - Jan 6th, 2006]]
*** Thunderbird 1.5 focused l10n testing day - December 20, 2005
*** [[Mozilla QA Community:ThunderBird 1.5 RC2 Community Test Day | ThunderBird 1.5 RC2 Community Test Day - Dec 13th, 2005]]
*** [[Mozilla QA Community:Firefox 1.5 RC3 Community Test Day | Firefox 1.5 RC3 Community Test Day - Nov 18th, 2005]]
*** [[Mozilla_QA_Community:Software Update|Software Update]] (August 25 or 26, 2005)


== '''QA Tools''' ==
== '''QA Tools''' ==
* [[Mozilla QA Community:Talkback | Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent (aka Talkback)]]
* [[QA/Talkback | Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent (aka Talkback)]]
* [[Mozilla QA Community:Litmus | Litmus]]
* [[Litmus | Litmus]]
* [[QA/TDAI/Inventory|Testing Tools Inventory]]
 
== '''Current Initiatives''' ==
'''[[QA/Community/Growth | Growing the Mozilla QA Community]]'''
We need to work together in order to build a stronger community.  The Mozilla QA team has started some of that work through Bug and Test Days, but there is more we can do to attract new people and give existing volunteers a chance to explore new projects and activities.
 
== '''Helpful Docs''' ==
* '''Handy Links'''
** [http://update-watch.localgho.st/nightly/production/latest/ Nightly Update Status]
* '''Things everyone should know!'''
** [[:HowTo:IRC | How to IRC]]
* '''For QA Coordinators''' (internal MozQA or super-duper volunteers):
** [[QA/Community/Test Day/HowTo | How to prepare for Test Day]]
** [[QA/Community/Bug Day/Planner | How to prepare for Bug Day]]
 
== Improving Community Participation ==
 
* [[QA/Community/Leadership|Community Leadership ideas from Meeting with Schrep, Timr, Jay Mar 4, 2008]]
* [[QA/Community/Participation|Ideas on how to improve community participation]]
 
== Archive ==
The pages are no longer in use.
* [[QA/Community/Daily_Testing]]

Latest revision as of 22:02, 23 January 2013

« QA Home Page

Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Wiki!

As our Mozilla community grows, this page will provide a central place for QA volunteers to help us better organize, plan, and execute our community testing. Any documentation or information that you feel will benefit our QA efforts is welcome here.

Hot Events

Community Events

  • Bug Days - Every other Tuesday, we will be gathering in #bugday to focus our efforts on bug tasks in Bugzilla.
  • Test Days - We will often need your help testing new features or a new release, so we will be holding regular test days to give you a chance to try out the latest builds and test around new fixes and features.
  • Developer Day 2008 - In 2008 we are formulating plans to host a QA Developer Day.

Community Projects

The QMO Discoverability page will help the QA team track our progress as we strive to improve QMO. We will certainly need community input and help along the way, so please check it regularly and continue to read the QA Blog for updates.
This mailing list that will be devoted exclusively to individuals and teams who are interested in providing valuable test coverage before we release our 3.0.x and 2.0.0.x branch security and stability releases as well our trunk (pre-Firefox 3.1) releases. [Note: This is a not a list for people who are interested in beta testing. Please read the description to see if you meet the criteria to be on the list.]
This is a community effort to localize content on QMO to different languages. Many of our community members can benefit from QMO, and we want to make it easier for them to get involved.
In an effort to get more students and professors interested in open source software and inspire them to join the Mozilla Community, we will be working with the Mozilla Campus Reps program to reach out to high schools and universities around the world. We plan to build a Mozilla University website that will be a landing page for anyone interested in getting started with Mozilla. From there, we can educate folks on the basics, and point them to more valuable online resources to help them become active members of the Mozilla Community.
Details forthcoming.

It is important for us to check that major websites display and work correctly. According to this target we are building categorized lists of all those websites. Our community is welcome to give feedback on company websites they are customers.

Who We Are

The Mozilla Quality Assurance team is made up of a unique community of internal employees and the public community of those who love the Mozilla products. We are constantly seeking solid volunteers who can dedicate their time to help us test our features and make a solid product!

Please feel free to join our Mozilla QA Community Team! Just click the Mozilla QA Community team link above and tell us more about yourself:

    • How long have you been a Mozilla Volunteer and/or user?
    • Where are you from?
    • What do you enjoy doing when you're not testing/hacking for Mozilla?

You can also subscribe to the community QA team alias by registering here: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/communityqateam

    • email: communityqateam@mozilla.org

How Can You Help?

Contact Us

Future Events?

  • As Mozilla continues to innovate the web experience through new features, we will need to make sure we thoroughly test any new functionality introduced in Firefox and Thunderbird. In order to ensure we catch any regressions and identify critical bugs quickly, we will occasionally have special New Feature Testing (NFT) events. When we do, we will post to the QA blog and also provide a test plan here that includes more information about the feature, any current bugs, test cases, and instructions on how to provide feedback.

QA Tools

Current Initiatives

Growing the Mozilla QA Community We need to work together in order to build a stronger community. The Mozilla QA team has started some of that work through Bug and Test Days, but there is more we can do to attract new people and give existing volunteers a chance to explore new projects and activities.

Helpful Docs

Improving Community Participation

Archive

The pages are no longer in use.