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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon dwyl

QA to add 'please test' labels

Open jay-meister opened this issue 8 years ago • 7 comments

Finally someone on the team (usually the developer who created the PR) applies the please-test label to any issues mentioned in the PR so that the Product Owner and/or User Testing Team are aware that the feature is ready to test.

Given that the QA has opened all issues that the PR has referenced as part of their PR review, I thought it would make most sense for that person to add the 'please test' label to the relevant issues rather than the developer.

jay-meister avatar Jan 26 '17 13:01 jay-meister

@JMurphyWeb good point. we will get "dwylbot" to do this for us! 😉

nelsonic avatar Jan 26 '17 14:01 nelsonic

Yeah i guess it is up for discussion, having never QA'd before, my angle is definitely coming from the developers side.

jay-meister avatar Jan 26 '17 14:01 jay-meister

@JMurphyWeb the question you've always got to ask yourself is: "whose time is scarcest?" 😉 When you have to QA 3 projects and still get your own work done your time vanishes. 😢 the solution is really to Automate this task, so we're going to have to write a "Bot" (specifically "DWYLBot") that will do the mundane things like applying "workflow labels" to issues/PRs for us. 🤖 #SolveProblemsOnceAndForAllByAutomating!!

meanwhile, until dwylbot is active, I would say that for now it should be part of the Dev's task(s) to apply the please-test label. 🏷

nelsonic avatar Jan 26 '17 15:01 nelsonic

@nelsonic fair enough. I would then ask the question that if a QA doesn't have time to add a please test label to an issue that is already open as part of their work flow, then they are possibly being squeezed a bit too tight?

jay-meister avatar Jan 27 '17 10:01 jay-meister

link to https://github.com/dwyl/labels/issues/48#issuecomment-277114855 (no automatic please-test label)

SimonLab avatar Mar 06 '17 15:03 SimonLab

Is it the QA that requests the developer to test or the developer that requests the QA to test?

Former > QA applies please-test label Latter > Dev applies please-test label

Surely?

ghost avatar Mar 06 '17 15:03 ghost

For me:

  • When the QA (or developer) add the "please-test" label to an issue it means that the product owner can now test the feature
  • When a developer ask a QA to test it means adding the "awaiting-review" to the PR
  • A QA asking a developer to test is a PR that has been rejected and needs to be updated

SimonLab avatar Mar 06 '17 16:03 SimonLab