QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-01-25-2012

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QA Staff Meeting Notes January 25, 2012

Meeting Details

 # Every other Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Warp Core 
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 # Vidyo:  https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=UK1zyrd7Vhym
 # Phone:  +1 650 903 0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
 #         +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US Toll Free)
 #         +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312 (Canada)
 # IRC:    irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa

QA Org Items

  • New Hires & Interviews
    • item
  • Upcoming Events
    • item
  • PTOs

Discussion Items

  • Usefulness of qa-contribute mailing list -- too much spam recently; what is it used for again? (Aaron)
  • Test Day 1/20 Reflection (Jason)
  • (DavidB) Check out powerball and try a simple addon to earn points for bugs you file and comment on.
  • Follow up on team discussion that stephend started last evening
  • Virtual Machine maintenance transitioning from Al to Geo. Want to try setting update schedule at every six months. Is this OK?
  • Has QMO handoff happened?

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

  • Fx.Next
    • Firefox 10 sign off meeting is today at 2:30 PM in WarpCore
      • If you know of any blocking issues please raise them to Juan, Marcia, or Anthony
  • Silent Update
    • Default Compatible Add-ons:
      • Huge thank you to every who helped with Default Compatible Add-ons testing; shipping for add-ons back to Firefox 4
    • Add-on Hotfix
      • Hotfix add-on is live on AMO for beta users, will enable us to simplify the chemspill process for *some* chemspills
  • Crash Investigation
  • Maintenance and Security (ashughes)
    • Firefox 3.6.26
      • Testing is underway, targeting push to Beta tomorrow, release on Tuesday

Browser Technologies (Tony)

  • Issues
    • Tracy taking Services QA Community stewardship.
    • Fennec Native is at risk for 1/31 beta date
  • Fennec (kbrosnan/aaronmt)
  • Sync Client (tracy)
    • Android Native Sync code drop .3 is nearly ready. It should go to m-c today or tomorrow.
    • Add-on sync is bubbling up the channels (Fx 11) gps has added a series of test to TPS for this feature.
    • Switching from Mozmill to Sikuli for UI automation of sync
  • Test pilot (tracy)
    • nothing to report
  • Sync Server (jbonacci, jrgm)
  • BrowserID (jbonacci, jrgm)
    • Trains continue to roll through
      • Train 17: Bug 713961 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2011.12.28 to production
      • Train 18: Bug 715728 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.01.05 to production
      • Train 19: Bug 719243 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.01.18 to production
    • Big additions in the current and next train:
      • Support for primaries
      • Support for localization
      • UI changes
    • BrowserID team is actively pursuing leads to act as primaries (email domains, etc).
    • QA work continues towards client-side automation
    • QA is also working with Dev on front-end and back-end unit tests
    • Other upcoming activities include build-out and deployment of PHX colo
  • Jetpack(?)
  • Pancake (nhirata)
    • Infrastructure changes, UX changes still occurring with nothing to test on the front end.
    • Dria (Deb Richardson) is now officially PM
    • Talked to Browser ID/WebQA team to figure out how to best tackle the issue of testing Browser ID and having infrastructure to have selenium tests for Pancake to run daily.

WebQA (Stephen)

Community (Marcia)

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QA Automation Service (Henrik, David)

  • General
    • Selenium 2.17 has been released
  • Mozmill
    • Mozmill 1.5.8 release has been targeted for today (including support for running tests in parallel)

Project updates

CI system for on-demand Firefox builds (Geo)
CI system for daily and l10n Firefox Builds (Henrik)
  • System runs stable within the last week - no fall-outs from Pulse
  • Due to lack of documentation for Pulse some issues with queues had to be fixed
Automated testing for add-ons default to compatible
  • Currently a WIP patch is available for testing
  • Waiting for the final list of add-ons to test including platforms and the MPT machines
MemChaser extension
  • Need to finish up the logging feature before we can go public on AMO
  • Working with the JS team on getting an API for garbage collection implemented
  • Collecting ideas for a zombie compartment detector
  • Feedback from various groups is absolutely positive
Case Conductor
  • Doing preliminary testing on 0.8 (pure-Django) drop
  • Feature list for 0.8 up-to-date in Tracker
    • Everything above the ".8 Feature Complete" bar is expected to be in 0.8 release
  • On-track for 0.8 complete on 2/3
  • Q1/2012 Goals created.

Apps (David)

  • Test Day on 1/20 Results (All)
    • We built a well documented software project, with github pages, pydocs ..etc.
    • ~7 contributors, ran into issues getting code up and running
    • Gained insight on future direction of apps extension automation framework
    • Began shift to java + selenium + sikuli + jbehave.
  • Mochi Tests
    • Met with Clint, got details on mochi tests, how to write / where to check them in ..etc.
    • Began experimentation process
  • Mobile (Aaron)
    • Reviewing sites on native fennec, for possible Android soup from Webkit -> gecko move.
  • Goals
    • Seed new test framework
    • Prepare for MWC.

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