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


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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