QA/Community/Bug Day

Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Bug Day wiki!!

When Asa changed his focus to marketing and spreadfirefox, a huge void in QA was left behind. Mozilla QA would like to try to fill some of that void by reviving weekly community Bug Days. I'll be in #qa every Tuesday from 12:00pm to 4:00pm Pacific Daylight Time to coordinate and guide your efforts in the bug topic of the week. I'll be scheduling a guest Dev or QA member to join us each week as well.

For those of you unfamiliar with Bug Days; a topic or area of focus is selected by the host. Then with all your help, we'll attempt to complete as much of the task as possible. Bug Days is an excellent way to contribute to Mozilla's QA efforts. It doesn't matter if you've been involved with Mozilla for years or if this is your first step into our amazing open source community. Anyone can participate and be a valuable contributor.

Topic of the Day

Week 2: May 9, 2006

• Talkback Topcrash Analysis - We'll be finding, creating and/or adjusting crash bugs so they appear on the Talkback Topcrash Reports. We will focus on the current Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch. Hopefully we can identify some of the recent topcrashers and reproduce them so that developers can get them fixed soon.
• Current Talkback Reports for the Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch:
  • for current topcrashers on the Firefox 2 branch, you can go here: http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2x/index.html
  • for old topcrashers at the time of alpha 1 (3/21), check out http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2a1/index.html
• Scheduled guest: Jay Patel - Talkback Guru and 1.5.0.4 QA lead.
• Related documentation: Talkback Central - for all things Talkback related.

Review of last week

Opening Day saw a large crowd in #qa. However, only a few community members joined in the Topic of the Day; Reproducing Crash Bugs, more specifically unconfirmed crash bug triage. The rest of the room occupants were labeled "rubberneckers" watching all the crashes get handled. stevee earned himself a t-shirt, from the Mozilla Store, for his efforts confirming and duping unconfirmed crash bugs. All and all, a decent beginning for the revival of Bug Days.

FAQ

Where do I start?

• The following documantation is good to become familiar with for anyone working on Mozilla projects:
  • Mozilla QA linked to from the "For Testers" section of mozilla.org/developer
  • A good document on how to find existing bugs
  • Read Bug Writing Guidelines to learn how to write effective bug reports that lead to bug fixes.
• Review the documentation specific to the topic of the day.
• Join the #qa channel
  • Go to your favorite IRC client
    • Windows clients
    • MacOS clients
    • Linux clients
  • Connect to irc.mozilla.org and "/join #qa"
  • Then, just ask the moderators how you can help for the topic of the day.

What build should I be testing with?

• Get the latest Firefox builds here

Past Bug Day Archives

Week 2: May 9, 2006

• Talkback Topcrash Analysis - We'll be finding, creating and/or adjusting crash bugs so they appear on the Talkback Topcrash Reports. We will focus on the current Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch.
• Current Talkback Reports for the Bon Echo (Firefox 2) branch:
  • for current topcrashers on the Firefox 2 branch, you can go here: http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2x/index.html
  • for old topcrashers at the time of alpha 1 (3/21), check out http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/reports/firefox/FF2a1/index.html
• Scheduled guest: Jay Patel - Talkback Guru and 1.5.0.4 QA lead.

Opening Day: May 2, 2006

• Reproducing Crash Bugs - learn more about what we'll be doing during our Bug Day!
• Scheduled guest: Jay Patel - Talkback Guru and 1.5.0.4 QA lead.