The Mobile App team had their monthly retrospective today.
Notes, actions and further discussion items are below.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/imported/Retrospective-August_...
= Actions/Further Discussion =
*Set up quarterly "unstructured sprint" [Kristen/Dan] *Give Vibha & Moiz iTunes account login access [Tomasz]; Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha] *Give Vibha & Moiz access to data about user actions [Dan] *Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] *Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz] *Explore paid testing services [Tomasz]
Velocity Graph has been updated to reflect recent sprints:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlEIL4N8KjNndHp...
Thanks apps team and friends!
-Kristen
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Kristen Lans klans@wikimedia.org wrote:
*Give Vibha & Moiz iTunes account login access [Tomasz]; Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha]
This is now complete
--tomasz
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Kristen Lans klans@wikimedia.org wrote:
*Explore paid testing services [Tomasz]
The background on this is that we've only been able to amass a small community of iOS testers who while being extremely helpful have not reached the consistent testing that we need. We'll still continue to crowd source as much as we can but in the mean time we'd like to explore some paid services and I'm curious to hear from the smart people on this list about any they would recommend.
Feel free to respond on/off list if you do.
CC'ing Chris and Greg to see if they have any recommendations
--tomasz
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Kristen Lans klans@wikimedia.org wrote:
*Explore paid testing services [Tomasz]
The background on this is that we've only been able to amass a small community of iOS testers who while being extremely helpful have not reached the consistent testing that we need. We'll still continue to crowd source as much as we can but in the mean time we'd like to explore some paid services and I'm curious to hear from the smart people on this list about any they would recommend.
Testing by volunteers is hard, and agile development makes it harder for volunteer testers to follow projects moving at speed. I have a friend working on this at Mozilla, and they have similar issues even with significantly more investment of resources than WMF has.
Of the crowd-sourced testing services, I like uTest the most http://www.utest.com/. They are one of the oldest such services and they seem ethical. While I have not employed them for any projects, I have dealt with them directly from time to time in the past.
As with any such project, defining a proper focus for the test effort is key to getting good results.
-Chris
Hi all,
Just a friendly reminder that our App team retrospective is tomorrow. Please review our action items from the last retrospective:
= Actions/Further Discussion =
*Set up quarterly "unstructured sprint" [Kristen/Dan] *Give Vibha & Moiz iTunes account login access [Tomasz]; Waiting on Design iTunes account [Vibha] DONE *Give Vibha & Moiz access to data about user actions [Dan] *Set up monthly apps data review meeting [Dan/Vibha] *Blog post and social media to recruit testers [Monte/Vibha/Moiz] *Explore paid testing services [Tomasz]
-Kristen