Feb. 11, 2004

WISQA Yahoo Discussion Group Presentation

1. General purpose of the Yahoo Discussion group
1. What it IS:

i. A forum to discuss Quality Assurance issues

ii. A networking tool to get to know your peers

iii. A place to exchange knowledge and information

iv. A means to obtain opinions on testing tools or techniques

v. A place to communicate to others about any related employment opportunities or to make it known that you are looking for employment in a related field

vi. Yahoo Groups has the ability to be used for file and picture sharing but we currently have disabled those features.

vii. Yahoo Groups has the ability to host chat room discussions but we currently have disabled that feature.

viii. Yahoo Groups has a polling feature that the group owner or moderators may use periodically to obtain information about a particular subject.

ix. Yahoo Groups has a links area where useful or interesting links may be placed to other web sites. If you have a link that you would like to have included to this list, email that link to: WISQA_Group_Discussion-owner@yahoogroups.com

2. What it is NOT:

i. It is not a place for sales people to promote their products. (This does not mean that if someone in the group poses a question about a testing tool cannot take part in the discussion. They simply need to know that they mustn’t cross the line between an open discussion and a full blown sales pitch.

ii. It is not a place to trash or defame anyone else’s integrity or point of view.

iii. It is not a place to post spam to the group

2. Create a Yahoo account
1. Navigate to: http://my.yahoo.com
2. Click the “Sign In” link
3. Click the “Sign up now” link in the page shown below

4. Enter information into all of the required fields of the form below

5. After the page has been submitted, you should see the following page

6. After clicking on the “Continue to Yahoo!” button above, you will be redirected to your personal “My Front Page”. You should see a section called the “Message Center” this will have a “Check Email” link. Click on the link to go to your Yahoo Email Inbox.

3. Joining the Group:
1. Go to your Yahoo email account
2. Find the email from the WISQA Discussion Group and open it
3. Click on the “Join this group!” button or reply to the email per the instructions

4. Accessing Yahoo Groups:
1. Click on Groups link on bottom of Email page
2. Add the Yahoo Groups link to your favorites folder
3. Add a shortcut on your desktop

http://groups.yahoo.com/

5. Select Preferences:
1. Select the Yahoo Group you would like to set your preferences

2. Click on the “Edit My Membership” link

3. Set your preferences using the links and radio buttons

6. Posting messages to the group:
1. Send an email to: WISQA_Group_Discussion@yahoogroups.com
2. Post a message directly to the Discussion Group from the Interface

i. Click on the “Post” link (located on the left side of the page)

ii. Enter text into the subject line

iii. Enter text into the message area.

iv. Wrap text option is on by default

v. Preview or send the message post to the group

7. Reading posts:
1. Yahoo Groups

i. You should always be able to view the posts by logging into Yahoo Groups unless your corporate policy is set to block you from accessing it from work.

2. Email

i. If you have set your group message delivery setting to individual emails, then you will receive a separate email for each message posted to the group.

ii. If you have set your group message delivery setting to daily digest, then for each day that there are one or more message(s) posted to the group, you will receive a single email that contains all of the messages.

iii. If you have set your group message delivery setting to special notices, then the only messages you will receive via email will be those sent by the group owner or moderator which are designated as “Special Notices”.

iv. If you have set your group message delivery setting to no email, then you will never receive any email from the Yahoo group including special messages also.

Yahoo Group Categories

Yahoo groups are separated into specific categories that are based on content and interests.

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The WISQA Discussion group is located in the following category.

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Here are just a few of the many Yahoo Groups that are available in our category alone; some of which have over 2000 members with ongoing active discussions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cste_studygroup/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QAQCTest/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CSTE/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/softwaretestingexperts/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/softwarequalityassurance/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Software_QA/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Automated_QA/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jobs-at-Testingworld/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SQAcareer/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SQAtester/