Desktop Testing Team

[Ara Pulido]

Hello all!

Today, one day after reaching the third Maverick milestone, Alpha 3, I
am happy to announce the birth of a new testing project and team in
Ubuntu: the Desktop Testing Team.

Every time we release a new Ubuntu milestone, testers are encouraged to
install the new milestone and play around with it, filing bugs as they
go. We want to go a bit further and use a more methodological approach
for those people that love testing and want to help improving Ubuntu
that way.

*How will it work*

For every milestone of the development release of Ubuntu, we will be
providing a series of testcases for you to run in that milestone. As
soon as the milestone is officially released, you will be able to
complete the tests in the following two weeks (although we encourage you
to run them as soon as possible, to allow enough time for developers to
fix the bugs).

One of the good things about this program is that you, as testers, will
be able to know every time what to test, you will be able to check the
new features before anybody else, and you will gain experience on the
Ubuntu development process. Also, there will be a mailing list to share
your experiences, bugs and to have direct feedback from the developers.

We will we using a test tracker to track your results and positive
feedback (a test passed correctly) will be also really helpful. Right
now, if things are working correctly, the developers need to guess it
from the lack of test reports.

*When will it start*

Just now! Although we don’t have a lot of testcases yet, we wanted to
start the program just after the release of Maverick Alpha 3. The first
weeks of the program are going to be busy and fun. Apart from testing
and updating results, we are going to be introducing ourselves in the
mailing list, commenting what testcases need updates and what
applications we need to add when we reach Maverick Beta.

*How can I participate*

Start by joining the Launchpad team and subscribe to the mailing list
[1]. Introduce yourself in the mailing list, tell us about you and what
applications are you mostly interested in. Create an account in the
tracker [2] (if you already have an account at iso.qa.ubuntu.com it will
work as well). Blog about it, tell your friends, tweet it. And, of
course, start testing Maverick Alpha 3. We are going to make Ubuntu
better. And GNOME. And many other applications that are part of Ubuntu.

You can find the full documentation on how to test on the Desktop
Testing wiki page.

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DesktopTestingProgram

Thanks!
Ara

[1] https://launchpad.net/~desktop-testing-team
[2] http://desktop.qa.ubuntu.com