Hi Pflodo, I'm part of the SUSE QA Team (see http://en.opensuse.org/QA_Team ) and QA peer for openSUSE.
One thing that I think we are currently missing is test plans for the community volunteers when doing beta testing. Sure there is a benefit having large numbers of people doing random things as well, as you want to test things that nobody thought of. But especially for new testers I think having some actual tests to run through would ensure that openSUSE testing is done consistently and I think would attract people who just need that little hand to get started with Beta testing.
You are right: it would be very good to have beta test plans for openSUSE. So far there are none available outside of SUSE. We are currently working on adding Testopia (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/testopia/ ) to Novell Bugzilla. With this tool building/offering of test plans is very easy. Currently it is just available for internal use, but we would like to have it online in QA2 2007 for all openSUSE users.
I have started http://en.opensuse.org/testing which is in a rudimentary state at this point.
Before I go further, I have some questions about http://betatestdb.suse.de If I understand correct, it contains SUSE's own internal Beta test plans. Correct? Can these be made public? Or can interested parties be given access? Is the contents suitable to be used to create community test plans?
With openSUSE there changed a lot with the 'old' SUSE Linux beta program. So http://betatestdb.suse.de/ is not in use anymore.
I would like to see a range of test plans for different hardware and components on the wiki, categorised with expected time to complete. You have a spare 30 minutes, you pull up a suitable length test plan and complete it.
I will offer you some information in PM. Maybe it is suitable for the wiki page. Holgi -- Holger Sickenberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90429 Nuernberg T: +49 (0) 911 74053-0 F: +49 (0) 911 74053483 - Holger.Sickenberg@suse.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org