Testing Open Source

Bugzilla 3.0, nine years in the making? Much life left?

Bugzilla 3.0 was recently released. “It was almost 9 years ago when Bugzilla 2.0 was released”, but the reality is that there have been at least 10 releases with major functionality since 2.0. Bugzilla and its derivatives are the most popular open source bug tracker for large projects including GNOME, Linux, Mozilla projects, RedHat Linux, and Novell (SUSE) Linux.

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Anu Gupta and Professor R.K. Singla are running a survey on current practices in defect management in free/open source software . Participate, help them with this interesting research!

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Software automation professional and open source testing tool Watir contributor Bret Pettichord writes:

Continuous Integration and Testing Conference in Dallas Fort Worth on Friday April 27 and Saturday April 28. Continuous Integration is the term of art for the practice of automatically building and testing your software whenever the code is updated. Cruise Control is the commonly used tool that manages continuous integration.

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Continuous integration thus refers both to this technology as well as the evelopment philosophy it supports: encouraging automation, stability,
frequent commits and collective code ownership.

Cruise Control is also open source.

The Continuous Integration and Testing Conference conference is also free! Too bad for me, it is on the other side of the continent

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