Bug Prioritization
This page describes the bug prioritization process performed by the quality engineering sub-department as part of the cross-functional prioritization process.
Our mission is to empower developers to focus on innovation, build, and deliver high-quality products to our customers. We aim to achieve this through:
Infrastructure Platforms Department structure is documented here.
TODO
We use Fibonacci Series for weights and limit the highest number to 8. The definitions are as below:
Weight | Description |
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1 - Trivial | Simple and quick changes (e.g. typo fix, test tag update, trivial documentation additions) |
2 - Small | Straight forward changes, no underlying dependencies needed. (e.g. new test that has existing factories or page objects) |
3 - Medium | Well understood changes with a few dependencies. Few surprises can be expected. (e.g. new test that needs to have new factories or page object / page components) |
5 - Large | A task that will require some investigation and research, in addition to the above weights (e.g. Tests that need framework level changes which can impact other parts of the test suite) |
8 - X-large | A very large task that will require much investigation and research. Pushing initiative level |
13 or more | Please break the work down further, we do not use weights higher than 8. |
graph TD DE[Developer Experience group] click DE "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience" DE --> DA[Development Analytics] click DA "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/development-analytics" DE --> DT[Developer Tooling] click DT "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/developer-tooling" DE --> FR[Feature Readiness] click FR "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/feature-readiness" DE --> PE[Performance Enablement] click PE "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/performance-enablement" DE --> TG[Test Governance] click TG "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/test-governance"
Name | Role |
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Director, Test Platform |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering |
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Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform |
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Manager, Quality Engineering |
The following people are members of the Development Analytics group:
Name | Role |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics |
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Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics |
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Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics |
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Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics |
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Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics |
The following people are members of the Developer Tooling group:
Name | Role |
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Director, Test Platform |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering |
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Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform |
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Manager, Quality Engineering |
The following people are members of the Feature Readiness group:
Name | Role |
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Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dedicated:Environment Automation |
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Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Systems:Gitaly |
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Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness |
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Staff Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure |
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Software Engineer in Test, Core Platform:Systems |
The following people are members of the Performance Enablement group:
Name | Role |
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Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dedicated:Environment Automation |
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Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Systems:Gitaly |
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Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness |
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Staff Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure |
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Software Engineer in Test, Core Platform:Systems |
The following people are members of the Test Governance group:
Name | Role |
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Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering |
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Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Plan |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Govern |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Create |
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Software Engineer in Test, Test Engineering, Verify:Runner group, Fulfillment section |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, CI:Verify |
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Senior Software Engineer in Test, Secure |
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