Howdy people, I'm not ignoring you but I'm trying to play catchup with email and finish coordinating some testing for the iOS app.  I'll respond in detail to this tonight or this weekend. 

Thanks!

Michelle 

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon@wikimedia.org> wrote:

2. Decide a mobile area to focus, a way to run the sprint and a date for it. Define also the goals and how to measure the success of the sprint.


I'm on board too, but I would like to suggest that Michelle spearhead this activity.  

..."a way to run the sprint" is the tricky part.  I think there are basically two options:  synchronous and asynchronous.  Synchronous is arguably more difficult, so lets' talk about that option first...

Synchronous test event:  we did this successfully for AFTv5.  Here is the test plan that I used:  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Article_Feedback_Test_Plan . That test plan is based on ideas from "Session Based Test Management", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session-based_testing (Just btw, the software testing articles on enwiki are pretty awful, someday I'd like to clean them all up, but it's a big job) 

I borrowed a lot of details for synchronous test events from the Weekend Testing Americas group.  They found some time ago that Saturdays from 10AM-1PM Pacific time is generally more successful than other times.   We had a dedicated test environment and an irc channel.  Everyone worked at the same time and collaborated on IRC simultaneously, and it was more fun than you might imagine.  

Asynchronous test event:  For a period of time (a day?  a week?) I'm not sure...) everyone participating is testing on their own, pending whatever collaboration they can create among themselves I guess.  I think a test plan with "charters" would be required for an async test event, as well as a coordinator to field information, feedback, questions, etc. from participants.  I think Yuvi has done this before for mobile, but I don't know any details.  

Brain dump complete, comments welcome. 
-Chris