[openstack-qa] [QA] Communicating test plans

Martina Kollarova mkollaro at redhat.com
Wed Sep 18 10:08:40 UTC 2013


I forgot the QA list is deprecated, resending to dev.

On Wed 18 Sep 2013 12:04:02 PM CEST, Martina Kollarova wrote:
> There is a lack of design documentation and specification in the
> blueprints, creating test plans is problematic and requires a lot of
> communication with the developers. I was wondering whether we could
> partially remedy this by creating a place where we could share test
> plans - a place to add comments, point out problems and figure out the
> weak points of the features.
>
> These test plans wouldn't be meant for documenting the
> existing tests (documenting 800+ test cases would be impossible
> anyway), just as a means of communication.
>
> My current solution is github + text files[1]. I chose using github
> because it's more likely to be actually used by developers. Another
> alternative would be the wiki, but I think the code-like nature of
> test plans would profit from using the same tools as for code. Putting
> them right into the blueprints would be problematic, as it doesn't
> support formatting, but we can link them there.
>
> Are there perhaps some better solutions for this? Would it be worth
> our time to try this?
>
> [1] https://github.com/mkollaro/openstack-testplans
>
> Martina Kollarova

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