Quality Control Suggestion

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:26:15PM -0400, Richard Kleeman wrote:
> This is coming from a user who has been involved in 3 releases and 
> lodged maybe 50 bug reports.
> 
> I understand that Canonical is hiring a QA  person at present so what I 
> am about to say might be redundant.
> 
> I have found that in testing a release for my operational and productive 
> use it is extremely useful to draw up a list of maybe 30 applications 
> that are essential to my productivity. I then regularly run through each 
> of these apps as the development progresses. The beauty of this is that 
> it picks up any relevant bugs in a systematic fashion. I have lodged 
> most of my bugreports this way. The developers have been very responsive 
> to these bug reports in general.
> 
> So here's the suggestion:
> 
> Draw up several bigger lists based on extensive community feedback. 

This is precisely what has been done at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing

Feel free to contribute new test plans and work with Simon to polish them up.

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 - mdz