Who doesn’t love bugs?
Mar 13th, 2007 by jim
Ubuntu Illinois / Chicago member Freddy Martinez had given me some brief pointers on filing bugs during one of our more recent Ubuntu-Chicago loco meetings, but my involvement with the ISO testing has really started to give me a taste for what bug reporting and triaging involves. Now that Xubuntu ISO testing is at a decent state, and we have enough testers to keep things moving, it seems like bug-related work will make for a natural progression from what I’m currently doing.
The “Helping With Bugs” wiki page looks like a good-enough place to get started.
I’m starting to better understand the role of ISO testing, and how it differs from bug reporting. ISO testing looks at successes and failures from a big picture - is this release stable enough to get out the door? ISO testing seeks out the show-stopper bugs that would prevent a milestone build from being released. Bug reporting works in a similar way, but on a smaller scale - does this package work as intended?
That’s how I kind of see it, anyway. They are different, but they compliment each other.
Oh, and apparently QA is a whole other ballgame, but I don’t know much about how it differs yet.
