This was a special session with Nerati, and they has Dan Steere and Chris Crane attend to help facilitate, andact as product owner for the session.

Mission: The focus of this session was to have the participants experiment by using the Nerati Profiler to inform and optimize functional testing of JForum, an open source application.  Nerati uses JForum in their internal test process.  It’s a bulletin-board application that’s relatively simple to use.
In order to facilitate the session, Nerati set up:

- Multiple versions of the JForum web app, hosted and accessible to all participants for manual testing
- Nerati Profiler to monitor the JForum web app, and operated by Dan and Chris
- A demo session vi a YouTube video of how the application worked.
- Nerati application pre-seeded with profile of automated regression suite executed on JForum

The group then went  through the following activities:

1) Reviewed the basic functionality of the JForum app and the Nerati Profiler in a quick demo (10-15 minutes)
2) Prepared a general plan of attack for testing, leveraging the analytics seeded into Nerati
3) Planned and executed manual testing of a patch release of JForum, leveraging the analytics provided by Nerati
4) Planned and executed a more involved release of JForum, leveraging the analytics provided by Nerati
5) Debrief and retrospective

The chat transcript and comments made during the session can be viewed here.

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Dwarika, Imam, Kavita, Koh, Srinivas and Stephen

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Notepad & MS-Word

Mission:

Compare the “Find, Replace and Go To” feature between MS-Word and Notepad.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

At the end of one hour, we expect a report highlighting your notes, observations, any inconsistency or bugs.

Session Highlights:

After testing for few minutes, we realized that there are many options and  it was not as easy as it felt when the session started. The entire group split into two teams. One team approached by comparing feature by feature. The other team split the features among the testers and consolidated the report later. In the discussion session, many questions were asked.

• Was the help feature used?
• Were foreign characters used as test data?
• Did anyone use existing files and test?
• What is the takeaway from this exercise?
• Any feedback for the organizers?
• Did anyone worry about different versions of the product?

Please find the test reports and chat transcripts here.

Team 1, Team 2

Session Chat Transcript

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Adil, Ashwin, Dwarika, Jagan, Neelima, Saurabh, Suman and Supreeth

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Notepad

Mission:

Prepare a list of functions of Notepad and also list the test ideas to test each function.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 60 mins. A test report highlighting the list of functions and the test ideas.

Session Highlights:

After testing for few minutes, we realized that the application is quite huge. It would have been a good idea to split the function scope among the testers. Though each one of us had unique approach, most of us navigated through the GUI and the context-menu options. There were talks of Mnemonics for function testing, differences between OS, bugs in notepad and the different approaches to function testing.

The video from BBST Test Design was also shared.

Please find the test reports and chat transcripts here.

Saurabh, Dwarika, Jagan, Neelima, Ajay, Suman, Supreeth and Adil

Session Chat Transcript

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Abhishek, Aleksander, Anca, Ashwin, Dwarika, Molnar, Neelima, Rajashekar, Saritha, Saurabh and Suman

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: OneKlikStreet

Mission:

We welcome feedback for the application. The service is at OneKlikStreet.com

1. It is a virtual office in the “clouds” with seamless audio and video facility.
2. You need the latest Google Chrome installed on your machine. The video/audio facility is purely browser based.
3. You can click “Live Demo” on the home page to enter a trial video/audio conference. Or signup and enter the trial video/audio conference.
4. click “Connect” to join the call.
5. Once in a conference room, you can invite others by email by clicking the invite button
6. You can share documents with others by uploading a document.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 60 mins. A test report highlighting your observations.

Session Highlights:

We had all the testers focused on the mission. There were more than one first timers too.

Please find the reports and chat transcript below.

Dwarika , Molnar, Neelima, Saritha, Suman, Abhishek, Aleksander, Saurabh

Session Chat Transcript

Time: 10am PST / 1pm EST

Description:

Join Weekend Testing Americas on Saturday April 6th at 12pm CST for a special session with Chris McMahon from the Wikipedia test team. This session will focus on testing new features in the wikipedia product designed to enhance the user experience for new users. A secondary goal of this session will be to spend time having a public discussion about how wikipedia pages on software testing can be improved.

Session Charter:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/WTA_ACUX_Test_Plan_Apr_6

To join, send a message to weekendtestersamericas 15 minutes prior to the session.

A full session transcript is available at the following link:

WTA38ExperienceReport

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Dwarika, Gojko, Helena, Koh, Mamatha, Michael, Neelima, Suman

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: www.mindmup.com 

Mission:

For the next one hour, this is our mission:
Based on http://blog.mindmup.com/p/keyboard-shortcuts.html
explore the functionality of the application and feel free to provide your feedback.
Gojko Adzic: Thank for doing this MM is open-source so any help is greatly appreciated

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 60 mins. A test report highlighting your observations and issues.

Session Highlights:

It was decided at the last minute that we will use MindMup. Gojko Adzic accepted the invitation to participate in the session even though it was a last minute notice. We split the browser stack among the testers. The focus was on the keyboard shortcuts.

All the reports can be found here. 

Ajay: Notes, Image 1, Image 2, Image 3
Dwarika: Notes, Image 1, Image 2
Helena, Koh, Mamatha, Neelima, Suman

Please find the unedited chat transcript here.

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Jagan, Koh, Neelima

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Black box machine by James Lyndsay

Mission:

Today’s session is about combinatorial testing technique.
http://www.workroom-productions.com/black_box_machines.html
Please download puzzle 5. We will find out about this puzzle behavior through combinatorial testing technique.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 60 mins. A test report highlighting your observations.

Session Highlights:

This session was a bit complex for everyone to start with. Testers started playing around with combinations and slowly, they got to know more about the product. Due to time constraints, many tests were not conducted. Tools like Hexawise & All Pairs were also mentioned. We also discussed about the tips to test such applications, its relevance in testing and use of tools.

All the reports can be found here. Jagan, Koh, Neelima

Please find the unedited chat transcript here.

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Andrii, Anurag, Imam, Jagan, Koh, Lavanya, Neelima, Nikhil, Rahul

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Mockup Data

Mission:

Hi Ajay,

I hope you had a chance to take a look at MockupData. Any feedback is much appreciated.

Anyway, yesterday I have released new version with an “email generator” feature, that many people have requested after initial release… I think what I’m going to implement next is the option to mix-in different charsets (e.g. in names).

Let me know your thoughts, I’m really trying to create a meaningful product!

So, lets help him create a meaningful product.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 60 mins. A test report highlighting your bugs/issues with screenshots.

Session Highlights:

We had many active testers in this session compared to previous sessions. The product addresses a important need for any testing session – the test data. Igor Jese was kind enough to give us free licenses to test the application. Some of them were first-timers.

We discussed about the bugs discovered, the good to have features. The reports ranged from word document, mindmap to simple text documents.

All the reports can be found here. Andrii, Anurag, Imam, Jagan, Koh, Lavanya, Neelima, Nikhil, Rahul.

Please find the unedited chat transcript here.

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Ajay, Jagan, Koh, Piotr

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Kaamastra

Mission:

Could I request you to kindly test http://Kaamastra.com for browser compatibility, UI stability and any major functional/operational drawbacks, tomorrow.

The website is live and would be wonderful to get to know issues first hand from knowledgeable people like you. Kindly help.

What do we expect at end of testing session?

We will test for 55 mins. A test report highlighting your bugs/issues with screenshots.

Session Highlights:

For the first time in weekend testing, we tested a shopping site dedicated to your bedroom needs and wants. It was made clear at the start of the session about the site to be tested. Only after everyone agreed to test, the mission was announced. As Koh mentioned the site contents look simple but there are many dynamic elements present on the site.

Piotr who is testing for the past 11 months found this session to be different as analysis, execution and summarizing was condensed into one hour. He started with user scenario testing.

Jagan was comparing the site across browsers and observed few issues specific to the IE browsers.

Everyone agreed that we need to test more as many tests were pending.

All the reports can be found here. Ajay’s report, Koh’s report, Piotr’s report, Jagan’s report.

Please find the unedited chat transcript here.

Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Participants: Ajay, Jagan, Koh, Lavanya, Raghu

Facilitator: Ajay

Application: Twitter.com

Mission:

We will read http://testingeducation.org/BBST/testdesign/Buwalda_soap_opera_testing.pdf  for the first 30 mins and prepare test scenarios based on soap opera approach for the next 30 mins for www.twitter.com

Session Highlights:

The first few reactions to the mission was that the 30 minutes time duration is very less. Few questions were asked about how should one proceed. Following tips were provided:

• Find important points
• Understand the Key Theme
• Relate it to www.twitter.com
• Write scenarios based on the learning

Raghu asked about Scenario testing. Two documents about Scenario testing are here and here. There was a question if we should create tests as one group or try individually? We decided to create on our own and then discuss in the discussion session.

Koh and Raghu paired up. In the discussion session, we discussed about the tests we had created. They can be found here:

Ajay, Jagan, Raghu, Koh and Lavanya

The entire session transcript can be found here.

Image credits: http://ticiaportugal.blogspot.in/2010/11/reference-soap-operas.html