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How is Taskbot Different from AutoQA?

Fri 24 May 2013 By Tim

I've done quite a bit of talking about how taskbot could be flexible but a lot of it has been rather abstract and a more concrete example would be helpful.

The Task

To step through this, I'm going to use one of the simpler tests from the existing ...
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An Initial Idea for Taskbot

Fri 24 May 2013 By Tim

I've been talking about QA and test automation but haven't really gone into much detail about what exactly I want to do. Hopefully, I've made a sufficiently strong case for a task automation system vs. a strict test automation system already but I'm open to other ...
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Down With Test Automation! Long Live Task Automation!

Fri 24 May 2013 By Tim

It seems like at least once or twice a year, there is a renewed call for more automated testing or someone starts talking about some new form of automated testing which we could do to make Fedora better. Every single time this comes up, the response is along the lines ...
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Rejecting QA as Quality Assurance

Fri 24 May 2013 By Tim

This is something I've said a few times before but not so much in a formal sense. It plays into some stuff I've been working on as of late and I figured it was about time to write about it.

As far as I know, the QA in ...
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A new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs

Mon 29 April 2013 By Tim

Now that the blocker tracking app has moved onto production Fedora infrastructure, we have a new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs for Fedora releases under development.

The Old Way

Before now, the only ways to get a bug proposed as a blocker or freezeException were to know how ...
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Proposing Blocker Bugs

Wed 23 January 2013 By Tim

I think this topic came up in the past but it was more of a "wouldn't it be cool if we did this" thing than an actual proposal. While at FUDCon Lawrence, we came up with a proposal to create a web form to assist in proposing blocker and ...
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FUDCon Lawrence 2013 Hackfests

Tue 22 January 2013 By Tim

While the presentations at FUDCon are always interesting, one of the big things which is possible at FUDCon is to collaborate with people while we're in the same location.

Fedora Test Automation

There hasn't been a whole lot of movement on the test automation front in Fedora as ...
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FUDCon Lawrence 2013 - Day 1

Fri 18 January 2013 By Tim

It's that time of year again - FUDCon time! I wish that I had a little more time to get stuff ready after Fedora 18 was released but there's not much I can do about it at the moment.

Today started as most FUDCons do - with a rundown of ...
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Converting To Pelican

Thu 06 December 2012 By Tim

I've been running my blog with Habari for a while now and while there are a lot of things I like about the platform (the comment system and the admin interface, mostly), I find the lack of decent themes, the need to either write posts in raw HTML or ...
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Gooey Karma

Tue 20 March 2012 By Tim

When I'm going through updates to give karma, I'm usually using fedora-easy-karma. While it's a great tool, the information that it provides is a but raw and doesn't provide much in the way of information if you're not already familiar with the package under test ...
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