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 2.0.1 Bugzilla and its derivatives2 are the most popular open source bug tracker [...]

Anu Gupta and Professor R.K. Singla1 are running a survey on current practices in defect2 management in free/open source software . Participate, help them with this interesting research!
FootnotesDepartment of Computer Science and Applications, Panjab University, Chandigarh [↩]Enhancement management? I don’t like separating defects and enhancements when discussing at this high level [↩]

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 [...]

Today, and next week’s Mozilla Community Bug Day are being spend sifting through feedback (Hendrix). Not support requests nor reported bugs, but “quick feedback on and suggestions for [Mozilla's] products”.

Jono Bacon is recruiting test volunteers for Jokosher.
Jokosher: is a GTK Python desktop audio creation environment.
This seems like a good volunteer testing opportunity:

Product looks cool and useful.
Enthusiastic about volunteer testers: “really, really” and “serious here”.
Early on in product’s life cycle so opportunity for novice to expert testers. In fact, novices are invited: “is a pretty [...]

I hope Testing Open Source will develop into a collaborative, volunteer run resource for testers of open source software.
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Announcements of new OSS testing tools or major releases
Discussion of OSS testing tools and processes
Comparison of testing tools
Announcements of OSS testing [...]