NetCAT stands for NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing, great program by NetBeans for their community members.

1. NetCAT
NetBeans Community Acceptance
Testing
- Atul Palandurkar
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2. Agenda
What is NetCAT?
1
What are Benefits of joining NetCAT?
2
What are Responsibilities after joining NetCAT?
3
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3. NetCAT
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4. NetCAT
• NetCAT – NetBeans Community Acceptance
Testing.
• NetBeans invite active members to volunteers
from NetBeans Community to test the
development builds (nightly builds) of NetBeans
IDE.
• Here community members are involved in
complete testing cycle of NetBeans IDE so that
the NetBeans is ready to release.
• After completion of acceptance testing of all the
community members NetBeans releases its new
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5. NetCAT
• You can easily join NetCAT
– Fill out Registration Form
– Subscribe to netcat@netbeans.org
• Register yourself to Wiki to get direct access to
Bugzilla and to edit Wiki pages.
• Choose and add yourself to NetCAT Tribe so as
to focus on particular area.
• Please note : Every activity is being monitored.
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6. Benefits
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7. Benefits
• There are several benefits of joining NetCAT.
• Top 3 contributors will get LinkedIn.com
recommendation.
• Some most useful participants will receive small
gifts / goodies like T-shirt, Cap, Towel, etc.
• Biggest benefit of joining NetCAT is we can learn
a lot from the experts of NetBeans Team like Jiri
Kovalsky, Program Coordinator, NetCAT.
• You come across the new and upcoming
features of NetBeans IDE before release.
• During NetCAT, you will get points for every
activity.
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8. Benefits
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Activity Points
1 e-mail sent 1 CAT Point
1 enhancement filed 1 CAT Point
1 bug reported (invalid, duplicate,
incomplete, works for me)
1 CAT Point
1 bug reported (new, fixed) 3 CAT Point
1 tutorial reviewed 1 CAT Point (2 pages, 1600x1200 px, Font
10pt.)
Feature full tested using Test Specification
on 1 operating system
1 CAT Point (5 pages, Wiki editing with 81x26
characters)
Feature sanity tested 10 CAT Point
Test Specification created for brand new
feature
1 CAT Point (10 lines, Wiki editing with 81x26
characters)
Participation in satisfaction survey 5 CAT Point
Participation in community acceptance
survey
10 CAT Point
Bug fix contributed 5 CAT Point for each 5 KB patch

9. Responsibilities
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10. Responsibilities
• Provide feedback for at least 2 functionality
areas (Tribes).
• Test Beta and RC builds, if possible test daily
development builds.
• File Reports using tools :
– Simple Bug submission form
– Mailing list
– Web forum
• Complete surveys and attend online meetings.
• Finally submit Community Acceptance (CA)
Survey.
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11. Atul Palandurkar
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Author :
NetBeans IDE How-to
Member :
JUG Nagpur
NUG Nagpur
Reference :
NetCAT Wiki