QA Home Page: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:40, 29 March 2011

Editing static pages that are destined for the RR (Round Robin), hgdownload, or linked to genomewiki.
Need to have links hard coded to the RR, but need to test them on the development machines? Take a look at how you can use javaScript with the static pages.

Currently we are on a 3 week CGI software release schedule. See CGI_Build_Schedule for more details.
The buildmeister follows this process.
When the CGIs are loaded on hgwbeta, the QA'er tests their assigned CGIs. The general CGI testing instructions can be found here.
Currently we try to test our CGI's in Internet Explorer & Firefox due to the high browser usage.
If you don't have access to a Windows machine with Internet Explorer, there is a machine you can log into.

Mailing list schedule can be found on the QA group calendar (Note: where it says Calendar:, you will need to change the drop down from "Main" to "QA" to view.)
Mailing list procedure can be found on the redmine wiki
Places to search for answers:
- Mailing list archives (which can be searched from these two pages on the main website: Contact and FAQ
- Search the mailing list forum which isn't as extensive as the mailing list archives.
- Public Genome Wiki
- Search the redmine mailing list project for internal chatter on previously answered mailing list questions.
- Frequently_asked_mailing_list_questions
- List of Subject Matter Experts to go to for help.
Remember that when you email users, make sure the links don't have session id's.
- Ex: w/ session id: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hgsid=190182411&c=chrX&g=geneid (remove the bolded section)
- Ex: w/o session id: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=geneid (note that links to description pages should include the database: db=hg19&)
Most other links without an hgsid will likely not work. Instead, create a session.
If you click on a link supplied by a user that includes an hgsid, do not change any settings until you reset your cart.
Make sure none of the links you respond with are to our internal servers, such as hgwdev. Typically we should only send links to genome.ucsc.edu, genome-preview.ucsc.edu, and to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu.

See this page for more information.

Vi
- Don't have a text editor of choice? Learn how to use vi by typing in "vimtutor" on the command line on hgwdev.
- Vi Quick Start Guide
- Handy Cheat Sheet

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 ** Ex: w/o session id: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=geneid (note that links to description pages should include the database: '''db=hg19&''')
 * Most other links without an hgsid will likely not work.  Instead, create a [http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgSession?hgS_doMainPage=1 session].
+* If you click on a link supplied by a user that includes an hgsid, do not change any settings until you reset your cart.
 * Make sure none of the links you respond with are to our internal servers, such as hgwdev.  Typically we should only send links to genome.ucsc.edu, genome-preview.ucsc.edu, and to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu.