Howdy people, I&#39;m not ignoring you but I&#39;m trying to play catchup with email and finish coordinating some testing for the iOS app.  I&#39;ll respond in detail to this tonight or this weekend. <div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div>
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</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I&#39;m on board too, but I would like to suggest that Michelle spearhead this activity.  </div><div><br></div><div>...&quot;a way to run the sprint&quot; is the tricky part.  I think there are basically two options:  synchronous and asynchronous.  Synchronous is arguably more difficult, so lets&#39; talk about that option first...</div>

<div><br></div><div>Synchronous test event:  we did this successfully for AFTv5.  Here is the test plan that I used:  <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Article_Feedback_Test_Plan" target="_blank">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Article_Feedback_Test_Plan</a> . That test plan is based on ideas from &quot;Session Based Test Management&quot;, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session-based_testing" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session-based_testing</a> (Just btw, the software testing articles on enwiki are pretty awful, someday I&#39;d like to clean them all up, but it&#39;s a big job) </div>

<div><br></div><div>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.  </div>

<div><br></div><div>Asynchronous test event:  For a period of time (a day?  a week?) I&#39;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 &quot;charters&quot; 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&#39;t know any details.  </div>

<div><br></div><div>Brain dump complete, comments welcome. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Chris <br></div></font></span></div>
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