This mail is in regard to a project that I was a part of last year, and also helped in starting with the GNOME-QA. The focus of the project as listed earlier on was to "Enable GNOME to detect bugs early and improve the overall quality of applications. Several projects have started using dogtail scripts for tests, this idea will help new projects to adopt tests, improve them and make use of CI in GNOME".
As a part of the project me and my co-intern worked to write tests for few of the GNOME Components, documenting the same in the QA Wiki [1]. I had also written a series of blogs about the same, because of which we saw significant applicants in the subsequent OPW rounds who were interested in taking up the project with ease.
I would like to take this project further this year too (As a part of the Google Summer of code 2015 programme ) , and hope to exhaust the list of the components we need to cover as soon as possible. This would not only enable us to achieve automated testing, but also ensure a foundational testing framework in place for the developers to take forward on.
Given, that the mentors for the project last year may not be able to mentor the same this time, I'd request for anyone interested to please suggest me about how this can be taken forward.
