QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-10-01-2014

Firefox QA Standup - October 1st, 2014

Dial-in Information

• Wednesdays, 8:30am Pacific Time
• Telephone:
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99779 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99779 (US)
• Vidyo Room: QA-Desktop
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-09-24-2014

Attendees: KaiRo, Ioana , mschifer ,Flaviu, Kamil, Teodora, Bogdan, Cristina, Florin, MihaiP, Andreea, kbrosnan, Otilia, Henrik, drno, Catalin,VarCat

Discussion Items

• Add notes for the post mortem if there were things that went well or poorly https://etherpad.mozilla.org/32-0-3-Post-Mortem
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013354 openh264 update manifests in Balrog

Project Updates

• Loop (Anthony)
  • 33: Disabled for release
  • 34: Final uplifts to Aurora will be landing this week
  • 35: Rooms mode in development

• Community Pathways (Tracy)

• E10S (Juan)
  • Ongoing work with add-on compatibility. Will plan for another testday.

• Metrics / Dashboard (KaiRo)

Notes and Actions

• Chemspill post mortem on thursday
• grant OP rights to adalucinet on the #qa channel
• [IoanaChiorean] Mobile Feature Health - https://mozqa.etherpad.mozilla.org/feature-health
  • Please add you suggestions, improvements etc

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • Petruta Rasa - PTO September 29th - October 3rd
  • Henrik - Public Holiday Oct 3rd
  • Mihai Pop 9-10 Oct.
  • KaiRo in MV Oct 11-28, in TRIBE Oct 14/15, in GSoC Reunion Oct 23-26
  • juanb - Oct 24-Nov 2

• Events
  • [Florin] Firefox 34 Aurora Testday scheduled for Friday.

Q3 Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q3

Q4 Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q4

Community

• [IoanaChiorean] Next Tuesday will be another round of the Community Call
• [IoanaChiorean] MozFest QA Activities - end of October - Ideas are more than welcome

Channel Status

Beta (Fx 33) (Desktop - Tracy/Kevin Mobile - Aaron/Kevin)

• beta8 went out yesterday with OMTC re-enabled
• new tab tiles will be disabled in beta9 and not released 'til later.

Nightly (Fx35) (Desktop - Robert Mobile - Anthony)

• Crash rates are improving on both products after some significant fixes.
• [henrik] New app bundles available now with v2 signing (keep an eye for regressions)

Security

[mwobensmith]

• Exploratory testing around tracking protection
• Shumway SWF-to-HTML security testing
  • Shumway - new opt-in dialog for M3 milestone
• Post-chemspill discussion around ride-along checkins

[Kamil]

• DLL hijacking issue will be added into oak and than m-c (Bug # 945192)
• more logging probes have been added to see if we can catch the issue
• once we have some data, will be pulled from m-c, fixed then added back into oak/m-c

Automation (whimboo)

• Mozmill
  • Updates for Mozmill-ci ( https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-ci/compare/4cfb7187ce3c...7501cb210522 )
    • Set retention policy to 3 days or 2000 maximum builds for beta/release jobs
    • Further improvements to reduce runtime of jobs to handle jobs for more locales (2:45h for all functional tests with latest 33.0b8)
    • Added two more batches of locales for beta and release jobs (now 75 locales)
    • Remaining locales will be added today
  • Refactoring of update tests is done for the new signed builds on OS X (bug 1071590)
  • mozmill-automation 2.0.8.1 has been released: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.automation/4e7kpLjneQs
  • e10s investigation for Mozmill by the A-team - no detailed feedback yet, but as estimated it should take about a month
  • Squid proxy about to setup in the next couple of days (hopefully)
• TPS
  • Refactoring of exception handling in Firefox Account and Sync related js modules by Cosmin

Stability

• We re-enabled OMTC on 33 and took a ton of crash fixes. Waiting on data to see where we'll land in crash rates with all that. Good communication with GFX around all this.
• Several of those fixes will also uplift to aurora
• Churn metrics are available for beta and aurora back to the beginning of the year: http://people.mozilla.org/~ctalbert/churn_metrics/churn.zip. (try again)You can see the structure of the databases here: https://github.com/ctalbert/churn/blob/master/churn/backend.py