Re: [wtp-dev] WTP Milestone 2: proposal to start testing on 12/10

[Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I like your proposal, the one change
I would suggest would to have our milestone plans completed much earlier
(Next week?)
And also with the reality of shutting
down in December, I think the test plans should ony extend a few days (2-3)

Thanks - Chuck

Rational J2EE Tooling Team Lead
IBM Software Lab - Research Triangle Park, NC
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David M Williams/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS
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11/14/2004 11:42 PM

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Component Leads: I'd like to propose something similar to PMC at 11/16
meeting, unless there is objections from any one due to complications I'm
not aware of. 
Please review quickly and let me know if you foresee any problems (Sorry,
I know that's only one day notice, but I don't think there's too much room
for controversy, 
and M2 (12/22) is coming up fast!).  The main way's it impacts you
will be 
        1) need to be plan to be "code complete"
for planned M2 content by 12/10,   
        2) need to update milestone plans, if appropriate,
to accurately reflect M2 content by 12/10. 
        3) need to plan to provide test plan for M2
by 12/10 
        4) need to plan to execute that test plan from
12/10 to 12/22, fixing sev 1 and some sev 2 problems (with an upgrade to
Eclipse M4 "at the last minute"). 

The one issue that's "sticky" is that I believe there will be
code in the build that is not  in the M2 milestone plan, per se (e.g.
Snippets View, Web Services, etc.). 
Ideally, to avoid confusion on what community should look at, open bugs
against, etc., this function would be "off" in final builds (by
renaming plugins to plugin.xml.off?) 
but perhaps easier to just document what's in and what's not? To be concrete,
I'll propose former (truly off) to see if someone has strong opinion or
a better idea. 

Thanks, 

David 


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According the WebTools charter, "The PMC is responsible
for establishing the level of testing appropriate for each Project, and
approving the test plans ".

While a bit vague, it does seem to indicate that "testing" is
an appropriate PMC topic, so ... I suggest the following "high level"
plan for discussion/approval at PMC meeting. 
Ultimately, I'm assuming the main goal is to have a overall "test
plan" for the *release* .... but presumably the main part of that
would be to "test each milestone". So, this "proposed plan"
is just to cover the next milestone. I should bring up now to be sure we
are all "on the same page". 

Overall, I've tried to plan in an extended period of testing for this milestone,
due to the tight timing with Eclipse base milestone, and the fact that
many will be taking vacations 
during this holiday period of time. That is, its not so much there will
be extra testing .... but will best be planned to be done a little earlier
than usual, so the "final test" can be a brief regression. And,
there's not much time left!, relatively speaking.  

Timeline: 
       12/10 (Friday) - candidate build for M2 (on Eclipse
M3), component 
                    
               test plans complete,
component teams (and community) begins "milestone testing". 
     12/20 (Friday) - upgrade build for final candidate build
(include Eclipse M4, and "most recent" versions of pre-req projects).
     12/20 to 12/22, "regression tests" with new base/pre-reqs.
     12/22 (Wednesday) milestone M2 declared and promoted. 

During this "milestone shutdown" period 12/10 to 12/22), the
goal is to fix all "sev 1" problems, "most sev 2",
and for components to not introduce anything new, so as to not risk last
minute regressions. This means all function proposed for the milestone
must be complete by 12/10, and any other work, done for following milestone,
should not be released to build. This should give time between now and
12/10 for component leads to update milestone plan to be more specific
about what's in and what's out of M2 milestone (and update following milestones).

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