I had a chat with Yuvi today and have some ideas for small test cases that would be meaningful for both Photo upload and commons.  I picked the 25th so we would be far enough in the sprint to have something viable to test. 

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Maryana Pinchuk <mpinchuk@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 01/24/2013 12:06 AM, Michelle Grover wrote:
>> I'm fine with slotting us in for 2/25.
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> Great! Slot booked at
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> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals
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>> I'm still a bit unclear on how
>> this all works, and what information we need to put together to make
>> sure that this is both a fun and useful experience for all. So sure we
>> can do it ... let me know what are the next steps :)
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> This is new to everybody and we are ironing details as we go. For instance, I just added a section "Requesting a slot" to the page above.
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> The week of Feb 25 is about manual testing. The first thing is to define a goal. Weeks ago you mentioned Image Uploader as a candidate for testing. Is that still the case? Otherwise let's find the right feature.
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> I'd rather go for smaller & well defined goals rather than broader and more ambitious. Especially for these first iterations where we are the first ones learning and when so much specific effort needs to be put in every week. After a first mobile week it will be easier to plan accordingly for a next mobile week.

By Feb 25 we should have two image upload workflows on the mobile web: uploading and inserting images directly into an article, and uploading from the side navigation panel and donating the image to Commons. The latter will be much easier to test, since the former requires finding an article with no images, then adding an image that's appropriate for the article in question. The latter can be any image, really, as long as it's not copyrighted. Both of these will require users to be logged in.

I'd suggest that as a first pass we simply invite users to kick the tires with a variety of devices/browsers on the upload-from-sidebar -- only top shelf brands are going to offer full upload functionality, but it would be good to make sure that older devices/quirky browsers decay gracefully and don't introduce any unexpected chaos.

Does that sound reasonable? I'm new to this, too, but very interested in seeing how it goes! :)
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