QA/Draft

Fedora Quality Assurance

Activities

The Quality Assurance project is engaged in the following activities:

• Testing of software as it is released into Rawhide, updates-testing, or as it appears in a supported public release.
• Developing and executing QA/TestPlans to test important functionality in a systematic way, usually with multiple cooperating testers.
• Developing and run QA/Tools, which use automation to find potential bugs.
• QA/Test Days are occasionally held on IRC to coordinate focused testing on a specific feature or component.
• The QA team works with developers and release engineers to maintain the Release Criteria, which is used to determine what bugs count as release blockers.

Related Projects

Other quality-related activities are handled elsewhere.

• BugZappers handle bug triage - they examine bugs reported by other people and resolve duplicates, incomplete reports, etc. BugZappers share the fedora-test-list mailing list with the QA Project.
• PackageMaintainers fix bugs identified by the QA Project, with the help of upstream authors and patches proposed by testers.
• Special Interest Group activities are interdisciplinary, involving everything from development to quality assurance.

Get Involved

• See QA/Join for information on how to officially join the QA Project.
• Jump right into one of the above activities listed above.
• See the Testing page for setup information on the Rawhide and updates-testing repositories.
• See the BugsAndFeatureRequests for information on how to file bugs effectively.

Communications

• fedora-test-list is the mailing list for the QA and Bug Zappers projects.
• QA meetings are occasionally held on IRC. They are open for everyone to attend and participate in.
  • Connect to meeting channel now
• The #fedora-qa channel is always open.
  • Connect to #fedora-qa now

See How to use IRC if the above links don't work, or if you need more information.