QA Home Page

General Goals

• 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.

Genome Browser Setup

• See Jorge's Presentation on the server setup.

GIT (Source Code Management System)

• Getting_Started_With_Git
• Working_with_Git
• Once you've read up...ask to take the Git Quiz.

Editing Static Docs

• 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.

CGI Build Process & Testing

• 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.
  • Brand new CGIs should be tested on the latest version of IE and FF.
  • All CGIs should be tested using the latest version of IE after they are built on hgwbeta.
  • On release day QA'ers test using their browser of choice, except the designated IE tester.
• If you don't have access to a Windows machine with Internet Explorer, there is a machine you can log into.

QAing tracks/assemblies

• Browser QA process:
  • New Assemblies
  • Specific Genome Browser Tracks
• Encode QA process

Mailing List Maven

• 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.

Updating Blat Servers

See this page for more information.

Tools

• 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

• UNIX Commands
• MySQL Commands
• Common Scripts
• Wiki Cheat Sheet