QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-01-06-2016

Firefox QA Standup - January 6th, 2016

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
  • Guest URL: link
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-12-16-2015

Attendees:

Discussion Items

• [Andrei] Desktop updates
  • General status – https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/DesktopManualQAWeeklyStatus
    • Builds signed off – 43.0.4 (build 1, build 3), 44.0 Beta 6
    • WebRTC periodical Smoke Testing – https://goo.gl/pVd1Np (45.0a2)
  • Upcoming priorities:
    • Build sign offs – 44.0 Beta 7
    • Mid-Aurora feature sign offs – Async Places Transactions, Text to Speech, Search Refactoring, Tab Groups Migration, Sync Tabs Menu
    • Stub Installers periodical Smoke Testing – https://goo.gl/RKh4tg (44.0b6-build1)
    • Feature testing – https://goo.gl/NKTH3j

• [Ioana] Mobile updates
  • We signed off Fennec 44 Beta 2 and Fennec 44 Beta 4 during the holidays
  • Yesterday we signed off Fennec 44 Beta 6 - no major issues
  • Kevin and Margaret raised a thread for the crashes.
  • In-discussion for the google play sign off
  • Fennec 44 beta 7 - most probably earlier than Friday

Major New Desktop Features status

• [Cornel] Windows 10 (all branches)
  • no updates

• [Petra] Async Plugin Init (Fx 46)
  • disabled by default

• [Paul] Tracking Protection in Normal Mode (Fx 46)
  • no implementation yet

• [Ada] New Profile Manager (Fx 46)
  • no updates

• [Cornel] WebVR (Fx 46) - read-only
  • feature is now enabled by default on Fx 46 - https://bugzil.la/1218482
  • testing on Windows 10x64 using latest Nightly is in progress to compare the performance with e10s on/off
  • still no reply from Josh Carpenter regarding the required hardware (we cannot guarantee that the feature is working as it should, as with the current hardware setup it's quite laggy and we have low FPS rate)
  • [Florin] Lawrence thinks this is not high priority right now, but will try to clarify with Martin Best

• [Ica] APZ (Fx 46)
  • no updates

• [Bogdan] WebGL 2 (Fx 46)
  • no updates

• [Camy] Text-to-Speech (Fx 45) - read only
  • various demo pages (found in the bugzilla issues) were tested
  • pref 'media.webspeech.synth.enable' is set to false by default on Aurora 45
  • preparing for mid-Aurora sign-off

• [Mihai] Async Places Transactions (Fx 45)

• [Petra] Search Refactoring (Fx 45) read-only
  • running existing testcases for the mid-aurora sign-off

• [Paul] Tab Groups Migration (Fx 45) read-only
  • running existing testcases for the mid-aurora sign-off, no new issues found yet

• [Ica] Sync Tabs Menu (Fx 45)
  • performing exploratory testing for mid-aurora sign-off
  • regression tests and test plan - in progress

Project Updates

• Metrics / Dashboards (KaiRo)

• Stability (KaiRo)
  • Crashes per 100/ADI are lower than expected by around 50%

• Desktop Automation (whimboo)
  • firefox-ui-tests landed on mozilla-central and are packaged in common.tests.zip (we still have to keep the github repository for older branches and testing updates and l10n builds)
  • about to run tests in mozmill-ci via test packages

• EME automation + YouTube MSE automation (sydpolk)

• Mobile

• Firefox Engineering QA (RyanVM/Rares)

Notes and Actions

• Please add any concerns to channel meetings

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs
  • Camelia Badau - 8 Jan

• Events
  • Firefox 44 Beta 7 Testday (this Friday) - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/testday-20160108