Judy Tang

With this blog I would like to introduce FishCAT member Wouter van Reeven.   The first part is the FishCAT survey with Wouter, the second part is Wouter's bio. Wouter is one of our top FishCAT contributors,  he sent more than 120 email posts to quality mailing alias to share his expertise with the community, he filed more than 7 bugs which helped to improve GlassFish quality.  When I asked Wouter will him continue with FishCAT program, he said: "Yes I will definitely continue with the FishCAT program. And if possible reintroduce the weekly or bi-weekly meetings via Skype", as you can see his passion for FishCAT.  In 2009 CommunityOne in SF, Wouter and I will give a joined presentation about FishCAT, click to join this BOF. It will be a fun memory. Thanks Wouter so much for all your great contribution to GlassFish quality !

GlassFish Quality Community (GFQC): What functions you like GlassFish v3 Prelude, and what you like to see improvement

Wouter: Well, the fact that it is the only application server so far supporting JEE6. There are still some minor issues with the admin console which I'd like to see resolved.

GFQC: What things you like about FishCAT, and what you like to see improvement

Wouter: I think the GlassFish Quality members really have done a great effort in listening to the community. Totally excellent! One thing that may be improved is deciding which issue gets which priority. Then again, that is really, really hard to do so I won't complain too hard about this ;-)

GFQC: Will you continue with FishCAT program and would you recommend FishCAT to your friends and ask them to join us

Wouter: Yes I will definitely continue with the FishCAT program. As for asking friends to come and join us, I think that very much depends on whether or not they use GlassFish and are willing to spend time testing new features and reporting issues if necessary. Then again, I would recommend any GlassFish user to join us, be it friends or not!

GFQC: Any other suggestion you like to let us know, your input is very valuable to improve GlassFish quality, thanks !

Wouter: Don't stop FishCAT! And if possible reintroduce the weekly or bi-weekly meetings via Skype.

GFQC: Optional, do you have any fun memory about FishCAT like to share

Wouter: Apart from haveing spent a great many month on the FishCAT mailinglist, I hope the presentation I'll be doing about FishCAT will be a fun memory

Bio: After completing his masters in Astronomy, Wouter started as a Linux Professional Support Engineer for Sun Microsystems. Wanting to do more Java Application Development, Wouter switched to Amis Services in 2005. Four years later, Wouter is a Senior Java and JEE Developer. Wouter also is Expertise Manager for Amis. In this role, Wouter is responsible for the long term Java and Web development strategy of Amis.  Wouter frequently writes about GlassFish and other open source technologies at the Amis Technology Blog, http://technology.amis.nl and JavaLobby,http://www.javalobby.org. In the past, Wouter has presented about GlassFish and OpenOffice at the Dutch J-Spring and J-Fall conferences, as well as at the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium (formerly known as JavaPolis).

The Software Quality Engineering (SQE) under the leadership and guidance of Quality Director Satya Dodda, set out to establish an open source testing community around the GlassFish product line. The SQE members identified active members of the GlassFish community, canvassed business and personal contacts and reached 55 universities including their alumni schools. Armed with a passion for quality, the team set out to and established the GlassFish Quality Community (GFQC), an open source test and quality community, which currently holds members from fifteen (15) countries around the world.  Would like to thank GFQC for the following big achievement to enhance GolassFish quality !

SQE has reached the FY2009 100 GFQC contributors goal with active members who are participating in one of the following quality improvement efforts:

• FishCAT Program 32 active members, 28 from v3 prelude, 4 from Eclipse plugin v1.0
  • GFv3 Prelude opportunity to "field" test the product and provide feedback.
  • Eclipse Bundle effort to reach the Eclipse community and get feedback on the new GlassFish plugin.
• Test Contribution Program  (3 contributors)
  • An opportunity to develop test cases, address community reported defects and improve the quality of the GlassFish project.
• Student: Test Class Program (29 students).
  • An opportunity to learn how to test the GlassFish product as part of the university curriculum classes.
• Student: Technology Program (38 students)
  • An opportunity to work on a Glassfish technology project with mentoring by the GlassFish engineers .

As a result of the hard work a total of 393 defects were reported through Issue Tracker.

FishCAT members : 145 bugs filed

• 125 bugs filed from FishCAT for v3 Prelude query
• 20 bugs filed from FishCAT for Eclipse Bundle 1.0 query

Students : 248 bugs filed

• 126 bugs filed from SJSU students as part of testing courses (2008 Summer Class) query
• 122 bugs filed from SJSU students as part of testing courses (2009 Spring Class) query

We thank each and everyone of the contributors for their participation which can be measured as follows:

• The number of defects reported through Issue Tracker
• Their involvement in a GlassFish technology project. Special recognition was given to those who contributed code.
• GlassFish product documentation reviews and comments
• GlassFish testing with other frameworks (Hibernate), technologies (Rich Faces) or databases (SAP MaxDB)
• Test cases developed based on TestNG framework and submitted to the GlassFish quality team.

A big thank you to every one involved who helped us succeed and achieve the 100 quality contributor goal !!!

Dear GlassFish Friends and Community members,

We GlassFish Quality Community (GFQC) cordially invite you to attend a session titled "FishCAT, or How the Community Helps Improve Software Quality" at CommunityOne in Moscone Center, San Francisco. FishCAT member Wouter and I will present at this session.

Join us along with other GlassFish friends and community members in this wonderful opportunity to:

  * Learn about open source testing for GlassFish
  * Explore ways in which the community drives software quality improvements
  * Network with like-minded fellow professionals
  * Discover ways you can easily contribute to the GlassFish testing

Please join us by:

(1) Register to CommunityOne:  http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/

(2) Submit the form below. The first 100 submitters will get a surprise gift: 
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cG9wbEpTejZjbklBY2xiS2RaYmpoUnc6MA

When: June 1st, 2009, 11:00 AM
Where: Moscone Center in San Francisco, California
   747 Howard St
   San Francisco, CA 94103

Thank You, and look forward to seeing you,
Judy

We have great results from this FishCAT for v3 Prelude Survey.  Thank you so much for 
the following people who participated the Survey. Here are some highlights
and please click on the names to see the complete survey and get to meet 
them too :-)


Adam  "I really appreciated the instant, amazingly short feedback cycle and the 
short line to the engineers. It was a pleasure for me to participate"

Kana "FishCAT is a really nice activity. We're planning to organize testing 
team in Japan GlassFish User's community. It will be wounderful if some
local-branches of quality community are organized in some part of the 
world to share knowledges"

Kristian "It's a pleasant experience and I like the mellow, relaxed style of 
communication on-list. The idea of having a community pretty much doing
"acceptance tests" and having a quick way of reporting any issues 
related to this seems beneficial to the project as a whole."

Jack "Any body can join FishCAT program from all of the world. Update Center is 
very nice function. In doing so, developers are able to add
only the modules they need"





Sebastien  "The best part of FishCAT is the feedback.  I never got a bad response from a 
developer because I found a bug.  They are happy about receiving
enhancements and they are willing to do it quickly."

Wim  "What I like most is to see that there is such a great community out there! A 
post on the mailing list hardly ever comes without numerous replies.
If a problem turns out to be a bug, the response of the development team 
is incredibly fast. I was amazed to see some bugs posted to be fixed in the
very next promoted build!" 
Wouter "I think the GlassFish Quality members really have done a great effort
in listening to the community. Totally excellent! One thing that may be
improved is deciding which issue gets which priority. Then again, that
is really, really hard to do so I won't complain too hard about this  ;-)"