WHEN: Monday, September 13, 2010 - 11am to 6pm PDT (1800-0100Z)
WHERE: irc.mozilla.org #bugday
WHAT: Today we will be offering lessons in testcase creation and management
WHO: Anyone willing to learn something new

Scoring

• Complete Lesson 1: 5 pts
• Complete Lesson 2: 5 pts
• Complete Lesson 3: 5 pts
• Complete Lesson 4: 5 pts
• Complete all lessons: 10 pts

Lesson 1: Finding a Testcase

Educators

• Give community members a particular testcase to find using each method
  • Example: "Find me a testcase for installing an add-on in Firefox 4"

Methods

• Search for a test by category
• Search for a test by ID
• Search for a test by string
• Search for a test by activity
• Search for a test by browsing a testrun

Scoring

• 1 pt for each completed task

Lesson 2: Anatomy of a Testcase

Educators

• Assign the reading
• Give the student a testcase to write
  • Example: "Write me a testcase for restoring a specific tab after a crash"
• Review the testcase and give revisions until the testcase is good

Tasks

• Read the primer
• Write a testcase
• Write a good testcase

Scoring

• 1 pt for reading the primer
• 2 pts for a test case
• 3 pts for a test case which passes review

Lesson 3: Reproducing a Bug

Educators

• Assign various bugs for the contributor to reproduce
• Try to make the first one an easy bug
• Give them successively more difficult bugs
• Once they've reproduced 3 bugs, let them reproduce as many as they can
• NOTE: They don't have to make any changes to the bug or comment on it; they just need to reproduce it (or not if the bug is fixed)

Tasks

• Reproduce 1 bug
• Reproduce 2 bugs
• Reproduce 3 bugs
• Reproduce N bugs

Scoring

• 1 pt per bug

Lesson 4: Investigating in-litmus? Bug

Educators

• Help students find bugs to work on
• Make changes in Litmus on behalf of students
• Flip in-litmus? flag for students
• Make sure to award them with a score for their work

Tasks

• Reproduce an in-litmus? bug
• Find a corresponding testcase in Litmus
• Revise testcase if found, create a new testcase if not

Scoring

• 5 pts for each bug taken from in-litmus? to in-litmus+