Hi all,
From discussions elsewhere, such as [1], it sounds like one of the
things holding back Geany development right now is a need for more testing.
I have some spare time that I can dedicate to exploratory testing of PRs to Geany and Geany-Plugins. I'm not a QA professional, but I am a programmer, I use a range of Geany features daily, and I understand Geany's code.
How can I test PRs in a way that would really help them get merged?
In particular:
1. How can I determine that a PR is mostly blocked on testing, and is likely to be merged when positive testing results come in? Some PRs are marked as "approved" in GitHub yet are not merged -- is that it?
2. How can I communicate my results to the satisfaction of Geany committers? For example, I could write up some kind of a report: an outline of what I tried, with screenshots of what I got -- would that help?
Thank you.
[1] https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1246#issuecomment-290047712