MozCampEU2012/Testing B2G Desktop Builds
Title of Session: Testing Desktop B2G Builds
Facilitator(s): Alex Keybl presenting on behalf of QA (presentation and resources prepared by Marcia Knous)
Are you paid or volunteer staff?: Paid
Area of Contribution (Team Name): QA
How are you currently involved with the community?:
Location of Work (where do you reside?): Mountain View
Talk Length (please choose between 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes): 60 minutes
Summary:
How your session furthers the MozCamp Goals (https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/Tracks): Aligns with Boot to Gecko organizational goal.
Expected Outcome or Deliverable: Get an active set of folks running B2G Desktop Builds and reporting bugs. Explain the Desktop build landscape - what they are good for testing and what they are not good for.
Note: This session was requested by Dietrich and was on his checklist of sessions for MozCamp.
Desired Audience Type or Skill-set: No particular skill set needed. We expect to have a build that will be easily installed by end users on their desktop.
Equipment Needs (Video projector already included):
To Be Completed by the Audience-
(If you would like) Submit a Question for the Speaker(s) or indicate what information you hope to gain by attending this talk here:
Place your name here if you would like to attend this talk:
- Julia Buchner
- Henrik Skupin
- William Reynolds
- Giorgio Maone
Documentation for doing this at Home
Windows: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-up-firefox-os-emulator#os=win
Mac: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-up-firefox-os-emulator#os=mac
Linux: http://informationisart.com/11/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Using_the_B2G_desktop_client