Rejecting QA as Quality Assurance

This is something I've said a few times before but not so much in a formal sense. It plays into some stuff I've been working on as of late and I figured it was about time to write about it. As far as I know, the QA in Fedora QA …

A new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs

Now that the blocker tracking app has moved onto production Fedora infrastructure, we have a new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs for Fedora releases under development. The Old Way Before now, the only ways to get a bug proposed as...

Proposing Blocker Bugs

I think this topic came up in the past but it was more of a "wouldn't it be cool if we did this" thing than an actual proposal. While at FUDCon Lawrence, we came up with a proposal to create a web form to assist in proposing blocker and freeze …

FUDCon Lawrence 2013 Hackfests

While the presentations at FUDCon are always interesting, one of the big things which is possible at FUDCon is to collaborate with people while we're in the same location. Fedora Test Automation There hasn't been a whole lot of movement on the...

FUDCon Lawrence 2013 - Day 1

It's that time of year again - FUDCon time! I wish that I had a little more time to get stuff ready after Fedora 18 was released but there's not much I can do about it at the moment. Today started as most FUDCons do - with a rundown of how BarCamp …

Gooey Karma

When I'm going through updates to give karma, I'm usually using fedora-easy-karma. While it's a great tool, the information that it provides is a but raw and doesn't provide much in the way of information if you're not already familiar with the...

IPython Notebook in Virtualenv

I'm a big fan of using virtualenv to keep development environments separated and want to use IPython notebooks with those virtualenvs. One might think that you could just install ipython and go but it turns out that there are a couple other steps...

PyCon 2012

While I could sit here and write pages on what I learned at PyCon, I think that it would be a bit more productive and readable to list a few of the highlights. Going into PyCon, my major interests were testing technique (for AutoQA), data...

Utility of Comparisons

One thing that I think we've all done in the past is write comparisons of different tools and frameworks. I've certainly done several in the past and they were read one or twice (by nobody other than my team mates) and are forgotten unless the...

Simple Testing Session Example

One of the things that I've been thinking about lately is how to do more testing of builds in updates-testing without needing to rely on pre-written scripted test cases. There's nothing wrong with scripted testcases but they're a bit painful to...