QA Home Page

GOALS

• Build and push CGIs every 2 weeks.
• Review new data sets using the checklist within a week.
• Monitor Apache for error 500, target 0.2% a month.
• No more than 2 data repushes a month.
• No more than 1 hour downtime during normal business hours (service-level agreement - SLA).

Procedures

• Track Test protocols (graphic)
• Test results
• Weekly CGI release process, build schedule, git-reports, and testing responsibilites
• Weekly CGI release version notes
• Staging notes
• Pushing trackDb to the RR
• New assembly release process details, and push checklist
• Request Tracker system
• Creating/Updating Genome Browser static pages (formatting)
• archiving
• Building the release log
• backups for hgcentral*

Utilities

• Catalog
  hgNearTest - Test hgNear CGI script
  hgTablesTest - Test hgTables CGI script
  joinerCheck - Check database internal consistency
• Cron Jobs
• Custom Track Examples

Data

• Track/Assembly overview
• Repushes
• usage stats for hgTracks/hgc
• Track to Table Correspondence (not maintained)

Systems

• Rules for team account
• meta data
• Slugwatch

Overall project links

• Mailing List Schedule
• Telecommute Schedule
• New Group calendar
• Old Group calendars (do not use this any more! - except to track code-release dates)
• Project assignments/priorities
• engineering
• Getting started in QA.
• cvs tutorial.

Biology

• Amino Acid Codes
• Kimballs
• Genetic Code
• UCSC Browsers in other places (include other orgs).

Programming, FAQs

• General QA resources
• Using JDBC
• vi tutorial: at the Linux command line on dev, type "vimtutor"

Etc.

• GBrowse
• Browsers used by QA team
• Genomewiki

Questions, comments, additions...