Open Source Testing – RedNotebook Rikard Edgren

In Julian Harty’s keynote Open Sourcing Testing at Let’s Test conference, RedNotebook (together with Sikuli and CiviCRM) was suggested as an open source project where ambitious testers could collaborate and share their testing efforts and results.

I have done a small start by contacting the RedNotebook team (they are interested in bugs and enhancements, especially in the areas of usability and performance.), and creating 7 charters (or exercises) to start with.

Details can be found at https://answers.launchpad.net/rednotebook/+faq/1971

The charters are available in the question forum (we’ll start there), where methods (here’s where we’ll learn) and results (here’s where the project will learn) can be entered as answers:

1: Test changes in the latest RedNotebook version
2: Usability heuristic evaluation
3: Performance investigation
4: Evaluate automation tool applicability
5: Platform compatibility
6: Save/Load
7: Bug Advocacy

Perform these, create new or test in your own preferred ways.
If we test the same product and share the way we do it, we can improve our testing skills!

3 Comments
Chris K May 29th, 2012

Seems like this would be a good target application for a Weekend Testing.

Zackarias May 30th, 2012

Congrats on the 100th article! Keep up the good work.

Rikard Edgren May 30th, 2012

You know I love numbers Zackarias, and we are not that far from one thousand comments on this blog.

Chris; yes, these could be used in Weekend Testing, but they might not be perfect.
Those usually have a person answering questions, and focus a lot on real-time collaboration.
My tasks/charters/exercise are more aimed towards providing relevant information, but doing them in your own pace, using your own learning style.
Maybe a Weekend session might be a way to show that it isn’t dangerous to publish results open source?