Testing in Open Source Software OSS Projects

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Testing in Open Source Software (OSS) Projects
Department of Informatics. Aristotle
University. Course Introduction to Software
Engineering Semester 5

• Name Angelos Karagkiozidis
• Contact akaragki_at_csd.auth.gr
• Student ID (AM) 904

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Project Name Dr.DivX OSS
Project login ID csd_testing2

• Host The Dr.DivX project is hosted by
  sourceforge
• http//sourceforge.net/projects/drdivx/
• of developers 10
• Development Status Beta
• Introduction Dr. DivX 2.0 officially the
  unofficial DivX encoding tool to create DivX
  Media Format files for playback on DivX hardware
  and software players.

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Screenshot of my project

• How long I used the project
• I downloaded and started testing in this project
  since 22/12/2005.
• Am using the Windows XP Service Pack 1 Greek
  Version.

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Bugs reported url 1 http//sourceforge.net/track
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11atid761876 2 http//sourceforge.net/tracker/
index.php?funcdetailaid1399208group_id145411
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ex.php?funcdetailaid1394502group_id145411ati
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• Testing Activity
• of bugs found 3
• of bugs reported 3
• of bugs fixed 0
• of replies to bug reports 5(constant dialogue
  with the developers of the application)
• What I like about the project
• The software was easy to use
• It was easy to report the bugs I found in this
  project
• The developers came in touch pretty quickly.
• It is a very vital project, every two weeks there
  is a new version

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• Problems I encountered in general
• I could not find a project early
• I couldnt find a buggy project in my interest
• First I took the Audacity project (in which I
  didnt manage to find any bugs) and dropped it
  and took project Dr.DivX OSS
• I do not have internet connection at home so I
  could not work properly.
• The program I chose had a certain bug only when
  being run in my PC.
• I couldnt spend much time on the open source
  project during the exam period which incidentally
  was its most vital moment (I missed some betas).