QA/COG
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QA Community Outreach Guide
Purpose
- To help provide direction to new Mozilla QA community members via a simple and concise guide for QA Community Leaders
FYI on Communication
- Actively engage with community members in a positive and non-curt manner
- Always ask questions if there is the slightest bit of uncertainty
- If they don't answer back after a certain amount of time, ask if they're confused about something
- Always answer questions promptly and concisely
Initial Introduction for New Community Members
- If they have a specific interest in a specific area
- Give them an e-mail address for one of the following mappings:
- If WebDev: stephend
- Community Involvement: aakashd, juanb
- Data Analysis: murali
- Localization: tchung, juanb
- Mobile: jmaher
- OS Testing: marcia
- Triaging: tracy
- Unit Testing/Automation/Tool Development: ctalbert
- Website Testing: whimboo
- MozMill: whimboo
- Give them an e-mail address for one of the following mappings:
- If no specific interest, ask them to go through QMO's Projects page and see if there is something they are interested in
- If nothing interests them from the list of Projects on QMO, suggest Litmus BFTs via QAC and tell them to e-mail you the BFT they are interested in
- Once they have determined a subgroup, forward their e-mail to tracy
- If nothing interests them from the list of Projects on QMO, suggest Litmus BFTs via QAC and tell them to e-mail you the BFT they are interested in
- In general:
- Bring up Testdays and BugDays
- Offer the following reading material
Determining the Next Step
- In the beginning
- Offer a simple assignment (to determine their level of competency) and reading material about the subject in QMO's Doc Tree
- After enough initial competency check
- Continue to give them more authority and responsibility when they are ready for it
- Don't be afraid to let them make mistakes
Preliminary Task List
This task list is not a finite set of tasks each person will be forced to do when joining the community. It's a set of specific tasks a new community member will be able to complete within a short amount of time. Each task is designed to help someone that doesn't have much experience at all in matters of testing, web development languages and/or the Mozilla community become familiar with such things.
- WebDev
- Community Involvement
- Assist in testday and bugday promotions via social networking
- Data Analysis
- Localization
- Download a build in your language and run the 3.x l10n localizer Litmus test run.
- Firefox
- Running litmus tests via QAC
- Find and file at least 5 bugs into bugzilla
- learn to follow through the bug filing process
- Mobile
- Download the build from the mobile nightly builds page and run BFT checks on a Fennec Litmus test run
- OS Testing
- Triaging
- Tool Development
- Website Testing
- Unit Test Automation
- MozMill Automation
- Labs extension testing
- Weave sync beta will be out. Can get the builds through addons manager or AMO
- Participate in testday on 12/4