Video about QA process in LibreOffice

On last Saturday I talked online (using our jitsi) about QA process in LibreOffice for some Russian people who want to be QA engineer in near future. One smart person made the record of my video presentation and now you can watch it on Youtube by link below: 

There were around 20 persons there. Some from them now want to try to contribute in LibreOffice project as QA. Let's see =)

What did Hamsters team do for last 20 days as LibreOffice QA?

As I wrote before, the Hamsters QA team is trying to decrease a number of unconfirmed bug reports in LibreOffice's Bugzilla. There are 20 persons in the team.

Let's see what they did for last 20 days:

1. They learned about LibreOffice

2. They know about QA process in our project now

3. They triaged around 200 bug reports

4. They confirmed around 100 bug reports

Next step as I see it is a getting knowledge about regression analize and doing bisect for bug reports with bibisectRequest keyword.

Hamsters QA team are trying to decrease a number of unconfirmed bug reports in LibreOffice's Bugzilla right now

I found an interesting Russian site and Telegram channel where newbies QA try to get some experience in QA process for free. Its name is Хомячки (Hamsters). You can ask admins to create a group for testing of anything and if someone want they will test your software (mobile, web, desktop or something) for you.

I asked there if someone want to test LibreOffice and many people said yes. So, today we have the group of Russian newbies QA who are triaging bug reports in our Bugzilla. We have a goal - to have minimal number of unconfirmed bug reports in end of August 2021 as possibly.

I hope it will be an excellent experience for Russian newbies QA and LibreOffice will get a big help in its QA process.

Problem with LibreOffice installed with SiGUI

This note is more for QA people in LibreOffice project. 

If you test LibreOffice in Windows then possibly you use the SiGUI tool for parallel installing of many versions of LibreOffice.

Some days ago I got a crash in current developer build (future LibreOffice 6.5) that was installed with SiGUI. Nobody could repro that crash, but I got it every time. Deleting of user profile have not help. I always installed LibreOffice for testing into the same directory on top of old version. It was a reason for my problem! A crash disappeared only after LibreOffice installing to another clean directory.

So better install LibreOffice for testing with SiGUI only in clean path and if you want use for it only one directory, then delete all subdirectories and all files from it before install.

About problems in LibreOffice from Linux distro packages

Very big thank you for all people who write bug reports about LibreOffice in to our bugzilla. But sometime I see, that your problems are only in Linux distro's (like SuSe, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) LibreOffice and we can't repro your problem in LibreOffice from TDF site.

Your reports are really very important for our project and you really help make LibreOffice better. Unfortunately, we have only several active QA member now. So I have a big request for you, dear bug reporters: before post a report with LibreOffice problem in to our bugzilla, please make sure that your problem reproducible not only in your installed LibreOffice but also in LibreOffice downloaded from TDF site. It makes QA work more simple.

Thank you for your reports anyway.