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