QA/Buddy Up Pilot

Description

BuddyUp is a web app currently under development for Firefox OS that enables peer-to-peer support with smart features like screen sharing, as well as on-device notifications when a contributor answers your questions.

Objective

The Buddy Up QA Pilot program aims to recruit community members to actively own testing of this project. This group of volunteers would independently develop a plan to do all testing, smoketests, develop test cases and test plan under the tutelage of two QA team mentors, Marcia Knous and Ioana Chiorean.

What you will learn

• How to prepare a QA test plan
• How to write manual test cases
• How to write automated test cases
• QA best practices
• QA Testing methodology
• Testing and debugging an app on FX OS
• Flame devices will be given to those that participate

Who you will meet

• Developers, Project Managers and UX Designers for the project

Where the Code Lives

The current work is being done in a Github repo and can be pushed to the device if you follow the instructions on Line 8 here.

Criteria for the Positions

1. Ideally will be available the week of February 23-27, 2015 for a training event with the entire Buddy Up team at an EU Mozilla space
2. Must be willing to commit to participate in the project the entire year
3. Must be willing to participate in the team Vidyo meetings and report progress once a week
4. Must be willing to regularly file bugs in Bugzilla
5. Would prefer EU based volunteers
6. Would prefer volunteers that have some familiarity with both QA and FX OS, but this is not mandatory. Enthusiasm and a thirst for learning is really what is needed!

How to Apply

Send an email to marcia@mozilla.com and include the following information:

• Your name and contact information
• Your location
• Why you are interested in participating and what you hope to get out of the project
• Please include your availability for the week of February 23, 2015