[Geany-Devel] Helping Geany move forward: testing

[Vasiliy Faronov]

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


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Vasiliy