Raring Cadence Week 1

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Ok, so we're a bit delayed in starting this because, well, there was a 
Holiday in North America called Thanksgiving. Forgive me. :-p

So, this week (through Saturday) is our first cadence week. What that 
means is we will be focusing testing specific packages (or isos) during 
the week. What you can do to help is to run through a testcase (or a few 
:-) ) at some point during the next week and report your results. The 
goal here is NOT to make all the tests green everyday. Instead, we want 
to test on a deeper level and really look for bugs in the software (or 
even the testcases :-) ) so we can be confident in the health of the 
package(s) we are testing. To that end, there is no daily target -- 
rather we want to test through Saturday (whenever that is in your 
localtime ;-) ). Think quality, not quantity (I know, it's a bad pun.. 
quality quality...)

What this means practically is during the next week, try to execute some 
testcases for our week 1 targets (which are libreoffice, unity autopilot 
tests and the daily raring iso). You can find the wiki page detailing 
this here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week1

The master schedule can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring

Again, I would suggest finding a day and time that works for you and 
adding your results. Feel free to use IRC (#ubuntu-quality on freenode) 
or this mailing list to discuss any bugs you may find. At the end of the 
week, I'll recap what we did (bugs, tests ran, etc), and we can evaluate 
the results to see if further followup and focus is needed or not. Now, 
our testing focus's each week will change in order to target packages 
that need more QA work, or new packages that recently landed in QA.

Now, this week I will also be posting the next bits in our autopilot 
series -- intending to teach you about running and writing autopilot 
testcases. Our cadence testing this cycle will include running both 
automated and manual tests -- we need both ;-) You'll note the autopilot 
unity testsuite is included this week. I hope our subsequent testing 
weeks can feature some new automated autopilot tests written by some of 
you :-) If writing automated tests aren't up your alley, don't worry we 
need manual testcases too!

Happy Testing everyone,

Nicholas
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