Would any open source project benefit from professional testing?

[bdaedalus359]

Does anyone know of any smaller but well maintained open source project that need some moderately professional testing done? For example, basic functional testing, compatibility testing or even writing test cases?

I work for a small software and hardware testing firm and we use a lot of open source applications and we'd like to give back to the community by helping in some open source projects. Please, feel free to let me know if you, friends or colleagues are interested. We'd love to help.

[bdaedalus359]

Oh! I forgot to add, the project doesn't have to be just Linux. It can be for Windows too. We'd prefer to work on cross-platform projects.

[GNU-Fan]

I think nearly every FLOSS project is in need for this. This, and documentation

For this reason, I suggest to help the products you use on a regular basis.
You will do a better job on these projects, because you are not only a tester, but also an actual user who gives feedback.

[bdaedalus359]

I think nearly every FLOSS project is in need for this. This, and documentation

For this reason, I suggest to help the products you use on a regular basis.
You will do a better job on these projects, because you are not only a tester, but also an actual user who gives feedback.

This is true but, the problem we are encountering is, projects like Gparted and Clonezilla don't really need any testing.. And other common projects haven't been updated in years.

[Bemk]

A really small one right now is Web Linux. It's an operating system (including kernel) in a web browser, but it's so new that the first release still is being written. We are really in a developing stage now, and very far away from our first stable release.

We are actually so new that some parts are still being designed, not a character of code on those parts of the system.