Back from Orvieto

Some words regarding the QA Camp last Thursday at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Orvieto, Italy:

Last Thursday many interested people met in Orvieto to talk about QA related topics. People came from all around the world.

Just to mention some of them:

Takamichi Akyiama [known as Tora] (OOo, Japan)
Shinji Enoki (OOo, Japan)
Makoto Takizawa (OOo, Japan)
André Schnabel (OOo, Germany)
Jaqueline Rahemipour (OOo, Germany)
Sophie Gautier (OOo, France)
Goran Rakic (OOo, Serbia)
Rudolf Ferenc (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Doug Bash (Seattle, USA)
Uwe Luebbers (Sun, Hamburg, Germany)

We talked about:

Quaste (a web application to compare VCL Testtool results),
QA-Track (a web application to register the release status of released builds),
Convwatch (a tool that can compare the document layout of different OOo versions via bitmap subtraction), about API/unit tests, about Automation by using the VCL Testtool, about TCM (a web application to store localized versions of test cases), about TCS (test case specifications), about the need of manual tests with input method editors (IME), about iTeams (Jaqueline talked about her experience with working together with Writer developers on a rework of the numbering feature in Writer), about CWS work (Sophie reported about her experience with CWS chartuseability01 and her work together with Chart developer Ingrid Halama). Rudlof Ferenc mentioned his team's work on OpenOffice.org source code analysis. And we talked about many many more things in detail..

All in all I think it was a very informative meeting and every attendee was able to take home new ideas and some information he/she was not aware of. The QA Camp was planned as an open house event but to my surprise most of the attendees stayed the whole three hours (!) and discussed and discussed.... :-)

I want to thank everybody making this event a success ! Especially I would like to thank the organizational team of this conference !

tags: event ooocon ooocon2009 qa

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