The 3.8 Regression and Release Candidate Test Plan

Owned by Joanna Bebak (Deactivated)
Last updated: Dec 06, 2019
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The Release Candidate Test Plan

When all 3.8 tickets have been completed, we can begin testing, and we will follow the test plan detailed below.

Before we start the Release Candidate testing:

  • If there are any blocker or critical bugs when we start Sprint 139, they must be fixed and tested before the RC testing can begin;
  • If there are any open tickets related to the features in the 3.8 release, they must be completed and marked as Done before any RC testing begins;
  • Regular regression testing has been completed in previous sprints before we start the release candidate testing.

Starting the Release Candidate testing:

Test Phase
Components/Features
Assigned in Test Cycle
Dates
QA lead responsibilities
RC 1
  • Execution of the 3.8 RC1 test cases on Firefox (Regression testing concerning all components/features);
  • Performance testing on Chrome;
  • Exploratory and translation testing on Chrome.

3.8 RC1

3 full days (as needed)

Team Mind the Parrot: 

  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will provide the status of testing by the end of the day; 
  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will triage and prioritize any bugs found during RC testing;
  • If there are blocker or critical bugs, they will be assigned to a 3.8RC1Bug test cycle;
  • Bugs are labeled 3.8RC1bug.
Bug triageBug triage for RC1

Bug fixes test cycle for a given Release Candidate, e.g. 3.8 RC1 Bug fixes

3 full days (as needed)

Suggested schedule, assuming we start testing on December 5:

Week One:

Thu Dec 05Fri Dec 06Mon Dec 09Tue Dec 10Wed Dec 11
  • Deploy 3.8 RC to Malawi and all other environments
    • Start testing

      Testing is focused on  regression testing (i.e. manual test case execution) and performance testing. Exploratory and translation testing is performed in the meantime, i.e. during the wait for the bug fixes or when someone doesn’t have any other testing to perform. Exploratory and translation testing has to be done instead of the code freeze tasks.

      • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST


Week Two:

Thu Dec 12Fri Dec 13Mon Dec 16Tue Dec 17Wed Dec 18
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • Daily bug triage at 6 AM PST
  • The 3.8 Release (hopefully)


Week Three:

Thu Dec 19Fri Dec 20Mon Dec 23Tue Dec 24Wed Dec 25





Week Four:

Thu Dec 26Fri Dec 27Mon Dec 30Tue Dec 31Wed Jan 01





Roles & Responsibilities

QA Team Leads

Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will be the QA lead for the Mind the Parrot team.

Owner
Responsibilities
Questions/Tasks before release begins

Joanna Bebak (Deactivated)

  • Create test cycles;
  • Create missing test cases and assign them to test cycles;
  • Point person for any questions about test cases from the team (from the QA and from the dev team);
  • Review execution of the test cycles, there should be progress during the day, and communicate the status at the end of the day;
  • Triage bugs before the scheduled bug triage;
  • Prioritize bugs per test cycle, check that developers have detailed proposed solutions (if time or the developer's experience allows). When a bug is created during the day, the bugs are triaged before the end of the day and detailed in the daily QA Slack communication;
  • Report the status of each test cycle, including defects reported, before the end of day; 
  • After a bug fix test cycle, review automated testing and provide its status before the end of the day (go to http://build.openlmis.org/view/all/builds).

Team leads:



  • Attend and make a decision for Go/No-Go before we start the release process:
    • Agree all features are done and ready to be tested;
    • The team is ready to start testing;
    • Review roles & responsibilities.
  • Coordinate manual testing with team members;
  • Coordinate manual performance testing with team members;
  • Assign bugs to developers after they have been prioritized at the bug triage;
  • Refresh test environments as needed (see the instructions here: /wiki/spaces/OP/pages/112106340).
  • Team Mind the Parrot focuses on manual performance testing;
  • Team Mind the Parrot typically refreshes all test environments during the release testing.
Team responsibilities
  • Execute the test cases assigned to you;
  • Record the test execution by following these steps: Testing Process & Test Plans#ExecutingTestCase;
  • Enter bugs as encountered:
    • If there are any blocker bugs, try to spend some time completing a root cause analysis and add the details in the bug ticket for ease at the bug triage;
    • When a bug is found, research and provide proposals in the ticket for review by Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) (as time allows);
    • Check the bugs for completeness, proposed solutions, priorities and labels;
    • All bugs are labeled with their release candidate: RC1, RC2, etc.
  • Assist other testers as needed.
  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will create a bug test cycle when bugs are found, and assign the test cases to them. For each RC, there will be a separate bug fix test cycle.

The Bug Triage team

Members
Responsibilities
Questions

Wesley Brown

Sebastian Brudziński

Joanna Bebak (Deactivated)

Joanna Szymańska (Deactivated)

Douglas Khumalo (Unlicensed) (or other) from Malawi

  • Review the list of bugs provided on the QA Slack channel;
    • Only bugs that have been entered and labeled RC1bug will be reviewed during the triage;
  • Prioritize bugs; 
  • Communicate which bugs need to be fixed;
  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) to create test cycles for retesting if needed;
  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) to provide the status update on the bug fixes on the QA Slack channel as needed;
  • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) to communicate on Slack the bugs that have been added to the board for the day.
  • When should we meet every day? Once in the morning (6am PST) and a communication on the bug triage status at the end of the day;
  • Guidance on bug prioritization is located here: http://docs.openlmis.org/en/latest/contribute/contributionGuide.html#reporting-bugs;
  • If there are bugs, then testing for the RC will be done in UAT only;
  • If there are critical/blocker bugs found, then we must retest. If the bugs concern the Reference Data service, all test cases related to the RC in which the bug was found have to be executed again. If the bug concerns any other service, only test cases concerning the service in which it was found have to be executed again;
  • Communication of the test plan before we start testing for the release:

Communication on the Test Plan and the daily testing status:

  • What needs to be communicated daily?
    • The test cycle execution status (including the test cycle's name and % of completion);
    • # of test cases that were executed, passed and failed;
    • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will post any test cases or items that need attention and review by the end of her day on the QA Slack channel;
    • Joanna Bebak (Deactivated) will communicate with the Malawi team (via the Malawi Slack channel) and notify them about the release candidate testing:
      • The communication of the scheduled start date before the release candidate testing begins;
      • The communication of when we start the release candidate testing (Malawi has one week to test);
      • The Malawi team is included in the daily bug triage meetings.
  • The best time of day (for each team to communicate the morning status and the end of day status & share blockers): 
    • The beginning of the day: Post what we are doing today;
    • The end of day: Post the status of what we have done, and anything pending.

Environments and the demo data for testing

Environments: uat.openlmis.org.

Refer to the demo data readme for more details about user permissions: https://github.com/OpenLMIS/openlmis-referencedata/blob/master/src/main/resources/db/demo-data/README.md.

ONLY test with the users "admin" or "administrator" when executing test cases related to administrative activities.

Test Data

Component
Username
Program
Concerns

Requisition



srmanager1, smanager1, psupervisor, wclerk1




srmanager2, smanager2, psupervisor, wclerk1 


srmanager4 (for the second approval), smanager4, dsrmanager, psupervisor


chaz (for the second approval)


administrator (testing requisition template updates/changes or program settings changes)

Family Planning

Essential Meds

ARV


Essential Meds and Family Planning




ARV


Family Planning

Essential Meds

EPI

ARV

  • Demo data restriction: May need to refresh the environment if all current requisition periods are processed (request and post the status on the QA Slack channel).
Stock Management

srmanager2


divo1, rivo

Family Planning, Essential Meds


EPI


Fulfillment

vsrmanager1

vsrmanager2

divo1

divo2

rivo

vwclerk1

wclerk1

EPI






ARV


Administration (Reference Data)

admin

administrator

All programs
CCE

divo1

divo2

vsrmanager1 (supervises Cuamba)

vsrmanager2 (one facility)

EPI
Reporting

reporter1

reporter2

reporter3

All programs

Reporting Tests

The following Superset reports need to be tested:

  • Reporting Rate and Timeliness;
  • Stock Status;
  • Stockouts;
  • Consumption;
  • Orders;
  • Adjustments;
  • Administrative.

Each report is covered by one manual test case. Only one person should be executing a test case concerning the Superset reports at a time. They should inform others on the QA Slack channel that they have just started executing the test case, that they re-started the processor groups in NiFi, and that they finished executing the test case. Then, some other person can start executing another test case related to the Superset reports.

Exploratory Tests

  • Translations;
  • Edge case scenarios.

More details concerning this kind of testing can be found in the section on exploratory testing in the Testing Guide: https://openlmis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conventions/testing.html#exploratory-testing.

Performance Tests

The performance testing scenarios are located here: Performance Metrics.

Enter the performance metrics here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1D4EUHsE-R_bUTt4HYcWiVDEy_UX50lZhdiyiC4bYg/edit#gid=0.


Deploying the release: Release Checklist 3.4.

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