Sakai 19 QA Hub

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Last updated: May 26, 2022 by Mark Golbeck
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Overview

The Sakai 19 QA Hub is the home page for the Sakai 19 Quality Assurance effort.

For questions please contact sakai-qa@apereo.org

Testing

The web page for all the testing servers can be found here:

http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org/

The web page you want to use for testing Sakai 19 is: 

https://qa19-mysql.nightly.sakaiproject.org/

The above link for testing Sakai 19 can be found under 19.x test instances on the testing servers web page.

Communication Channels

Sakai QA list

Join the Sakai QA list (sakai-qa@ apereo.org) to keep up to date on all things QA in Sakai. Anyone can join the group here: https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!forum/sakai-qa

Sakai QA Slack Channel

We have a very active Sakai QA channel in Apereo’s Slack instance. We use this for communicating during Test Fests and asking QA questions to the group or to individuals anytime. If someone at your institution has already joined, then you can self join at: https://apereo.slack.com/signup

Otherwise send an email to  sakai-qa-planners@apereo.org  to have your institution's domain added for self signup. For a quick overview of Slack (along with some helpful tips n’ tricks), see the following video: https://youtu.be/aB8PsAn97uo

Meetings

Weekly QA Planning Calls

The QA Planning Group meets every  Wednesday from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Eastern time . This group guides the overall direction of the Sakai QA effort, creates testing materials and processes, and participates in testing. Meetings agendas and notes can be found in our etherpad link: http://bit.ly/2kpnF1g. It lists all of the links for all current QA planning call meetings. If you want to look at a specific meeting click on the link associated with that date. All are welcome! We meet in the QA Room in BigBlueButton:

http://apereo.blindsidenetworks.net/apereo/ 
QA Room
password: apereo

Latest Version - Sakai 19.6

Per Wilma and the release announcement:

Sakai 19.6 has 87 improvements including 

  • 6 fixes in Forums

  • 7 fixes in Gradebook

  • 6 fixes in Lessons

  • 6 fixes in Rubrics

  • 41 fixes in Tests & Quizzes

  • 5 fixes in Message Bundle Manager


Other areas improved include:

  • A11y

  • Assignments

  • Basic LTI

  • Content Review

  • I18n

  • Mail Sender

  • PA System

  • Portal

  • Presence

  • Sign Up

  • Site Info

  • Syllabus

  • Web Services

QA Testing this week 

This week for QA, we will want to continue testing for the Sakai 22.1 release. 

The server we want to use for testing is the Sakai 22 branch.

This branch can be found here: https://qa22-mysql.nightly.sakaiproject.org


Sakai 22 Testing:

Verifying master JIRAs if nothing left to verify. 

  • Any JIRA resolved. 
  • project = Sakai AND resolution = Fixed AND status = Resolved and resolutiondate >= -2w
  • Anything fixed or resolved in the last 2 weeks. 
  • MASTER VERIFICATION only

The Friday conference call (aka TestFest) will be held in the Sakai QA Room in BigBlueButton. BigBlueButton can be found by following this link: https://apereo.blindsidenetworks.net/apereo/. In the drop down menu for rooms select Sakai QA Room. The password is apereo. Starting time is 10:00 AM EST. 

Look forward to seeing everyone at Test Fest this week.


Reporting New Issues via Jira


Server to use for testing
Unless otherwise stated, all testing is taking place on the Sakai 19 RC02 QA server - https://qa1-us.nightly.sakaiproject.org/portal (refreshed weekly on Mondays)

When testing notifications/email, you can check the Mail Catcher server to confirm sent messages - https://mail.nightly.sakaiproject.org/
Reporting Issues

Weekly Test Fests

Join our QA “Test Fests” every Friday from 10am to 11 am, Eastern time! This is an opportunity to jump into testing Sakai with the support of the QA Team and other community members. You do not need to be an functional expert to get involved. Test Fest agendas and notes can be found in our our etherpad link: http://bit.ly/2lBUQ1H. It lists all of the links for all the current QA Test Fest meetings. If you want to look at a specific meeting click on the link associated with that date. We begin our Test Fests in the QA Room in BigBlueButton (see left). Throughout the course of the Test Fest, we communicate using our new SakaiQA channel in Apereo’s Slack instance described under Communication Channels on this page. 

*QA testing is informed by updates on the Core Team call and QA planning meetings which are held on Tuesday every week.  Therefore, QA testing cycles usually run from Wednesday to Wednesday the following week.  Longer QA cycles may be held during QA for major releases to accommodate more in-depth testing such as regression testing.


Useful Details / Resources

Video: How to create a Jira

Sakai QA bug fix workflow.pdf

Signup and scripts for testing Sakai 19 RC01

Testing Resources - test files and content for Calendar, Gradebook, Lessons, Tests & Quzzies, CK Editor and general media/text files