QA Activities

List of activities to be done before a release to call it QA Done,

Ensure test pipelines are passed for the last commit on the gocd/gocd repo master branch,

• smoke
• smoke-on-cloud
• regression - SPAs
• installer-testing

enterprise repo master branch,

• regression-pg-gauge
• installer-testing
• Upgrade-testing
• BC-testing
• migration-test
• performance - Call to execute performance test can be taken based on the need. Depending on the changes going in a release a call can be taken if performance test needs to be executed.

Manual activities:

• Testing on Windows - Regression does not cover Windows installers and testing feature on windows. General tests executed on windows

  • GoCD server and agent installers with and without PG addon
  • Installer upgrade with and without PG addon
  • If any plugin related changes test the plugins on windows

• Cross browser testing - performed using https://crossbrowsertesting.com/ - credentials are in the vault

  • Specifically IE Edge 14 to latest(depends on the GoCD supported browsers)
  • All other supported browsers(regression takes care of firefox, basic test on other supported browsers will help)

• New/Improved features and Bug Fixes testing

  • New/Improved features to be tested manually.
  • Identify scenarios to be automated and add to regression suite.
  • Project wall comes handy to help in planning these tests

• Exploratory testing