Introduction
Welcome to the Apache NetBeans IDE community acceptance testing (NetCAT) initiative! If you have not heard about NetCAT before, please read what it's all about. Simply put, the goal of NetCAT program is to get early feedback on the main features and confirmation from NetBeans community that quality of the product is ready for the official release.
Time Schedule
This is a rough plan of important announcements, milestones and tasks scheduled for the following 3 months the NetCAT program.
Start Date | Description |
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2018-02-21 | Preparation - schedule, pages, Synergy (4 days) |
2018-02-27 | NetCAT 9.0 invitation sent, volunteers start joining |
2018-02-26 | Creation of tribes (1 week) |
2018-03-05 | Review of existing test specs and creation of new ones where required (2 weeks) |
2018-03-19 | Full testing of beta build starts (4 weeks) |
2018-04-13 | Community Acceptance survey opened (3 weeks) |
2018-04-27 | NetBeans 9.0 GA build check (3 days) |
2018-04-30 | NetBeans 9.0 GA ready for release |
2018-04-30 | NetCAT satisfaction survey (4 days) |
2018-05-04 | NetCAT 9.0 closed |
Useful Links
- Synergy - test specifications and test run management system for the NetCAT program
- NetCAT participants - list of volunteers who signed up to participate in the NetCAT program
- NetCAT tribes - overview of teams responsible for respective functionality areas in the Apache NetBeans IDE
- JIRA dashboard - main dashboard providing basic statistics of quality of the Apache NetBeans IDE