Auto-tools/Meetings/2013-03-25

Goals Progress

Below are our top level goals. Beneath each goal, note any progress made towards that goal this week.

Goal: Continue to deliver B2G automation support for in house developers and partners - jgriffin & team
Goal: Create new Performance measurement tool with performance team to measure startup using the best of our new tools - mozharness/mozbase/datazilla. - jmaher & perf team
Goal: Support next generation android efforts by getting Android x86 virtualized environments to run mochitests - bc
Goal: Improve test slave capacity by allowing linux desktop tests to be entirely virtualized for tests that do not need hardware support. - jmaher & Releng
Goal: Build to support future capacity for workflow and performance by:
- Deploying Bugzilla 4.2 - dkl, glob
- Publicizing and starting on an effort to revamp TBPL - jeads, edmorley & team
- Updating test harnesses to use mozbase and mozharness and creating a migration plan for moving to better test reporting across the board (migration planned for Q2 to coincide with TBPL v2 delivery) - jhammel & ahal
- Revamp GoFaster measurement tools - camd
- Create plan for triage workflow and begin triaging according to it - lizzard
- Make all QA centered automation ready for rapid betas to allow the desktop team to work faster - Henrik & team

Highlights

This is a place for people to put announcements or to describe activities that they'd like to highlight. It's not the responsibility of the MC to find things to put here.

synchronisation between bmo and tcl went live today!

Issues

Any issues that need discussing with the entire team go here

New Meeting format

In-Depth Project Discussion

Pick one project/presenter per week who will give a detail presentation on their project.

Upcoming Events

Standing weekly meeting related to our projects should go here

Round Table

Put your questions and things to raise with the entire team here

[bc] Use logging in devicemanager instead of print?

Take notes here and copy and paste them to this section afterwards.

The Overview

Progress, notes, problems, and other statuses about current projects. Add any new projects to this template!

Mobile (1st Monday)

AutoPhone/Noah's Ark

Configured OSX to use Network Link Conditioner to emulator 3G phone networks
Investigating improvements in using the logging module - bug 853961. Good progress.
Back into production by March 26.

B2G Automation

[rwood] Continued development of long-running GaiaUI tests (bug 843083), helping debug memory leaks, next step is datazilla integration. For a detailed test list please see the GaiaUI Stress Test etherpad.
[ahal] Landed crash stacks for b2g (bug 843296)

Mobile Evangelism Site-Scraping Tool

Android Automation

Tools (2nd Monday)

Bugzilla

http://globau.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/happy-bmo-push-day-36/
http://globau.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/happy-bmo-push-day-37/
[glob] zeus caching investigation
[dkl] lots of tracking flags work
[glob] updated the list of products visible by default on enter_bug pages
[dkl, glob] lots of post 4.2 bug fixes (arecibo, dashboards, persona, splinter, typesniffer, needinfo)

Bughunter

Updated VMware tools on ESXi vms.
Updated to Django 1.5
- Broke UnitTests due to a name conflict with Django's new unittests
- Broke on OSX due to a change in metaclasses
- Ok on Windows and Linux. :-/
Need helping hand in MV to reboot qp-mac106i64-01

GoFaster

Pulse

MozTrap

[camd] - implemented fixes for some suite case duplication bugs. pushed to stage. testing now.
[camd] - pushed fix for replication error with test run activation to prod. looking good so far.

Tinderboxpushlog

[edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/851826,850670
[edmorley] Parser patches: https://bugzil.la/816971,853994,854002
[edmorley] Reviewed bug 852711.

War on Orange

OrangeFactor on trunk for last 7 days: 7.42
[edmorley] Another round of nagging devs about top oranges & disabling tests where no action has been taken.
[edmorley] Debugging patches/try runs to try and make progress on bug 603147.

TBPL Version 2

[edmorley] Reviewed https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder-service/pull/8

Performance (3rd Monday)

New Graphserver (Datazilla)

Signal From Noise

Speedtests

Eideticker

[wlach] Filed a bug/call to action about doing a cross-browser startup test that loads a web page: bug 852744
[wlach] Continued work on using pointgrey cameras for live capture of devices without HDMI out. Really starting to really look like a viable method of getting performance data!

Talos

General Framework Support (4th Monday)

MozBase

[wlach]: Documentation work for moznetwork, mozhttpd, ManifestDestiny: bug 852296, bug 852422, bug 853956

In-tree Automation/Harnesses

WebRTC Test Development

Process (4th Monday)

Sheriffing & Trees

[edmorley] More work on the "policy for showing platforms/test-suites on TBPL's default view".
[edmorley] Brainstorm & triage of ideas to reduce tree infra load: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/InfraLoadIdeas