Meeting Notes / Desktop Firefox / 2011-11-01

Action Items from Last Meeting

(eg. Action items from last meeting)

• How are we going to prioritize manual tasks going forward?
  • We need to write a wiki explaining a new approach: task list, priority ranking, timeline, scrumpad daily schedule(?): done, scrumpad
• Set up a meeting with Dave Townsend and fligtar to see how to approach this. Scheduled for Thu late morn.: done

Discussion Items

(eg. Discussion items for the team)

• Fx8 Update Scenarios Testing
  • What's our approach going into Fx8
    • Plugins, add-ons, browser state
  • Who signs off and when
• Fx8 Feature List and Sign-off
  • Need to make explicit in the test plan
• Other testing being performed that needs to be describe and communicated
  • Web Compatibility testrun
  • Status?

Status Updates

(eg. Status highlights and top issues)

• Fx8: Go for RC given today, Oct 31
  • Builds available EOD Pacific time.
  • Automation TBD
• Waverley (Paul, Ioana, Mihaela, Virgil, Simona, VladG)
  • Firefox 8 beta 5 Test Plan
    • Smoketests in Litmus
    • Exploratory testing - Webapp compatibility
    • Manual exploratory work around Updates
    • Fixed bug verification Exploratory spreadsheet
  • Firefox 9 Test Plan
    • Fixed bug verification
    • Feature ownership: Make DNT signal accessible from the navigator global object Test Plan - Ioana
    • Input triage (ongoing task) - http://bit.ly/qVSHwK
  • Firefox 10 Test Plan
    • Triage of Unconfirmed bugs across platforms Link
    • Noted results for daily endurance tests Google Spreadsheet
    • Input triage (ongoing task) - http://bit.ly/qVSHwK
  • Firefox 3.6.24 Test Plan
    • Smoketests in Litmus
    • BFT's in Litmus
  • Logged Issues Bugzilla Query
  • Test day involvement Link
• Feature - Silent Update Link
  • Lessen the showing of the what's new page Link - Mihaela
    • Status: Updated the test plan with more info and created and ran test cases.
  • Removal of OS security dialog for Windows Link - Simona
    • Status: started the exploratory work on a try build.
  • Add-ons default to compatible Link - Virgil
    • Status: in development, nothing landed on F10 at this moment. Planed to test tryserver build. Created test plan (60%-to create extra test cases once I will be able to test the tryserver build).
  • Apply update on shutdown Link - VladG
    • Status: I'm waiting for the builds in order to resume testing. Begin creating a test plan.
  • Workflow with Incompatible Add-ons Link - Ioana
    • Status: contacted the directly responsible person and lead engineer; waiting for updates.
  • Lessen the display of app update UI Link - Paul
    • Status: Testing is in progress.
• Feature - Third Party Add-on Warnings Link - VladM
  • Status: the patch landed on Beta and Aurora and we began testing on these channels as well. We'll update the test plan after more testing.
• Feature - Extension Manager:Confirm on Upgrade Link - VladM
  • Status: updated testcases and verification across platforms.
• Feature - People Search Link - Ioana
  • Status: SIGNED-OFF.
• Feature - Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand Link - Mihaela
  • Status: updated test plan, created and ran test cases

Notices

(eg. staffing update, vacation)

• Paul Silaghi started today on Desktop Firefox team. He will replace Andrei Domuta.
  • SV Wiki page
• Otilia - Vacation starting Monday Nov 14 and returning to office on Monday Nov 21

Action Items this Week

(eg. Action items)

• Go over test plan review process to address the problem where feature ownership are overlooked, for example: In-content UI Visual Unification
  • This feature was assigned to Henrik but no work had been done on it. He had not assigned it to himself.
• Revisit idea for QA review of testplan. Probably best during Aurora phase.
  • Start out internally and cc developers
• Create wiki page with end-game information for Firefox 8
  • What have we done and what are the results?
  • QA* queries
    • Fx8 list of bug verifications for the end game
• Talk to Geo about running Automation