Quality Assurance/Getting Started

These are some of the step to follow to start contributing to QA:

1. Subscribe to the QA list (qa@lists.wikimedia.org).

2. We are on IRC in #wikimedia-qa on freenode. To join the chat, create a Nickname on https://webchat.freenode.net/ and use #wikimedia-qa for channel.

3. Introduce yourself in this QA list with your name, interests, your time zone, best way to contact you, your nickname on freenode etc.There are a lot of people who will help you.

You can also pair with Zelkjo to help you get started.[See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pair_programming_Friday_for_fun_and_profit for more details]

4. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance#Test_environments and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment to know the test environments and deployment schedule.

5. Create accounts on test environments : http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and http://test2.wikipedia.org and play with "preferences" in your account.

6. Create a Bugzilla account, as this is how bugs are reported.

7. Login to Bugzilla and search for "your area of interest" (for e.g. VisualEditor). Try to reproduce the bugs.

This is not an exhaustive list, Newbies, Please feel free to add more to this list.