Date: April 17th 2010

Time: 3pm – 5pm IST

Application to Test

We have a newly written user manual on floss manuals -

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/WebHome.

Using this manual, read the welcome  (http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/Welcome ) to learn a bit about the purpose of Mifos and pick one of the following sections and test the application to discover new bugs, usability improvements, and user manual improvements:

Mission

a. System Users

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/HowToWorkWithRolesPermissionsAndSystetmUsers

b. Defining new loan products

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/HowToDefineNewLoanProducts

c. Manage centers, groups and clients

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/CentersGroupsAndClientsOverview

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/HowToCreateANewCenter

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/HowToCreateANewGroup

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Mifos/HowToCreateANewClient

URL Details [Test Servers]

http://ci.mifos.org:8108/mifos/

Session Highlights

• A session facilitated by Jon Bach Thanks Jon.
• Testers paired up and helped each other.
• www.typewith.me was used to take notes.
• A healthy discussion on complexity of the application and in general.

Please find the chat transcript here.

Image credits: http://www.resonancepub.com/images/Complexity_1.gif

This session was unique (as usual ?) just like other Weekend Testing Sessions.
Testers discussed about ‘Testing’, ‘Requirements’, ‘Traps’, ‘Skills’ and many other interesting information like Tree Diagram and Traceability.

Thanks to Dr. Meeta Prakash who answered each question with utmost of ease, patience and gave very valuable tips to the testers.

Please find the ENTIRE chat transcript HERE.

Some useful links:
When Do We Stop A Test – Michael Bolton

Feel free to comment, question, share, discuss your thoughts here.
See you in next weekend session.

Image Credits: http://answersformbacourse.blogspot.com/