Defines the projects, tasks, and KPIs associated with building and maintaining the FIO Chain.

Overview

There are several projects associated with improving and maintaining the FIO Chain:

Core chain and contract development to support FIO Improvement Proposals (FIPs)
QA of core chain and contract bug fixes and new features
Release management of core chain and contract updates
Ensuring the security of the FIO chain
Maintaining compatibility with and contributing to the EOSIO ecosystem
Building a developer community around FIO

Core chain and contract development

QA

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

Release Management

Security

EOSIO compatibility and community support

Resource estimates

1 FTE for updating test harness and overseeing QA automated test development
1 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)
0.25 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)

KPIs

Task	KPIs
Core chain and contract development	Maintain release dashboard for FIP development: estimated release dates, current status
QA	Timely delivery of automated tests for new features. TBD on this process. Maintain QA dashboard summary of test coverage tests in development with estimated release dates Testnet testing completed within 2 hours of new releases Mainnet testing completed within 2 hours of new releases
Release management	Timely delivery of Devnet, Testnet, and Mainnet releases. TBD on this process. Maintain Release dashboard Release pipeline Release history and versioning
Documentation and knowledge sharing	Maintain document repository with
FIO Chain and contract security
EOSIO compatibility and community support
Developer outreach and community building

Centralized

1 x QA Manager
- Test harness architecture
- Oversee test development
2.5 FTE
- fio.test new and backlog automated tests
- Proof’d tests
0.5 FTE release testing

Community / Bounty

1 x QA Manager
- Test harness architecture
- Oversee test development
Create bounties for:
- fio.test new and backlog automated tests
0.5 FTE
- release testing
- Develop/Maintain Proof’d

Outsource

1 x QA Manager
- Test harness architecture
- Oversee test development with outsource group
- Release testing
Outsource
- fio.test new and backlog automated tests
- Develop/Maintain Proof’d test scripts

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