Greg, James, Kristen, Rummana, Elena and myself met today to discuss our next steps for the QA resources assigned to Editing and Mobile Apps. 

We decided that both Elena and Rummana will split their time roughly 50% between Editing and Apps. As we agreed that QA should be integrated into the teams, Elena and Rummana will attend the standups and meetings of both teams. This will help ensure that both QA testers are aware of ongoing feature development and can allocate themselves accordingly.

That said, we acknowledged that with any assignment of our very limited QA resources, there would be need to be some inherent flexibility. Perhaps the Editing Team needs more QA than normal one week due to a big release, and perhaps the Mobile Apps Team needs more in a different week. That flexibility is agreed going in, and we can evaluate that on a week-by-week basis.

Although both testers will test for both Editing and Apps, there will be primary points of contact for QA in both teams to ensure continuity of communications:

• Elena will be the primary point of contact in QA for Mobile Apps
• Rummana will be the primary point of contact in QA for Editing

Mobile Apps will continue to engage with The Specialists Guild for broad regression testing and testing of compatibility with different versions of the iOS and Android OS.

The success of this arrangement will be reevaluated in early February, or sooner if deemed necessary.

Thanks,

Dan

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Dan Garry

Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Wikimedia Foundation