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Quality Assurance (QA) is a big space, and there are many ways you can help. If you have no experience, you can help make Thunderbird better. Jump in, and you too can feel you contributed to the new release of Thunderbird.
There are Three Areas where you can contribute to the Quality of Thunderbird, they're quickly explained below, each of them having a specific page with more details.
Testing
This activity is rather 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 here if you want to help with the testing activity.
Maintaining the bug database
The bug database aka bugzilla is the tool used by developers to track defects in the product.
The database is open to anyone who wants to let the developer knows about issue with Thunderbird.
Work in this areas is based on understanding the product, the protocols and what he users are seeing. No need to be too technical - but it takes time to get acquainted with how things work and this activity is more time consuming than testing.
More information on this activity can be found here.
Writing automated tests
That's the most technical part of the job of QA. It requires a good dose of technical knowledge, or 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.
If you want to know more, just get in touch with us and ask us all sorts of questions. Bear in mind that we might take a few minutes to answer - so we just ask that you be patient if you want to ask us something.
Some people that have participated and that are participating are sharing their reasons - you might be the next one!
- this is the #tb-qa channel on irc.mozilla.org