Defines the tasks associated with FIO QA. FIO QA is mainly focused on automated test coverage and is less concerned with defining manual test cases that can be followed by a QA engineer.

Overview

There are several categories of FIO QA:

QA Tasks

fio and fio.contracts automated testing

fio and fio.contract QA is covered by the fio.test javascript test harness. New automated tests are created for every new action, endpoint and feature added to the protocol. Full regression tests are run for every release.

The current process for developing automated tests generally follows:

• FIP/requirements are defined by product team

• Product team publishes initial test cases

• Test cases are enhanced by development and QA teams

• FIO development creates initial tests as a template

• FIO QA completes full automated tests

Gaps in testing:

• All features, especially Mainnet features, do not have full regression tests

• Testing lags development and impacts releases

• Limited QA resources to develop automated tests

• No time to focus on test harness architecture

• QA not integrated into CI pipeline

Devnet release testing

Devnet release testing is currently done by the development team. It involves deployment and upgrade testing of fio and fio.contracts.

Testnet release testing

Testnet release testing currently consists of:

• Running an automated smoketest against Testnet before and after deployment

• Some manual testing of Testnet using Cryptonym

• Some manual testing of features by development and product teams

Mainnet release testing

Mainnet release testing currently consists of:

• Some manual testing of Mainnet using Cryptonym

• Some manual testing of features by development and product teams

Application testing

Application testing is currently covered by manual UAT testing by the development and product teams. Options being considered are:

• Using Proof’d automated regression scans to catch changes

• Writing Web UI automated tests

• Increasing manual testing

SDK testing

SDK testing currently consists of:

• SDK unit tests written by development team

• Typescript unit tests run against new releases of fiosdk_typescript and new fio and fio.contracts releases

• Kotlin and Swift unit tests are not currently maintained or run for new releases.

• Go SDK is maintained by Blockpane. TBD on how unit tests are built or run. TBD on how Go SDK is maintained.

Resource estimates

• 1 FTE for updating test harness and overseeing QA automated test development

• 12 months FTE for adding missing regression tests (can be done by multiple developers)

  • Bounties or outsourcing?

• 1.5 FTE for adding new regression tests for new features (2:1 ratio of developers to QA)

• 0.2 FTE to maintain Proof’d or other automated test suite.

• 0.2 FTE for release testing

• 0.1 FTE for SDK release testing (does not include SDK unit test development)

Project Plan and KPIs

There are several categories of FIO QA: