QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-08-13-2014

Firefox QA Standup - August 13th, 2014

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-Desktop
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-qa-standup-2014-q3

• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-08-06-2014

Attendees: Florin, Catalin V., Paul, Catalin S., Ioana, Mihai, Otilia, Marc, Henrik, Tracy, Liz, Juan, Anthony, Matt

Discussion Items

• [Florin] OP rights on IRC for myself (:FlorinMezei), Andrei Vaida (:avaida) and ioanachiorean. Channels: #testday, #qa, #mozillians, #romania, #firefox, #remo - Any updates?
  • [mschifer[ tracy will take care of this.
  • [kevin] will chase down an IRC op and have the ownership moved to current staff.
• [Florin] We performed a quick check on Mac OS X 10.10 Beta
  • 31, 32, 33, 34 are functional with small visual issues
  • Catalin V. to verify Breakpad and update Juan if functional or not
• qe-verify flag has been created
  • KaiRo will update dashboard queries to include this as well as the pre-existing markers

New mailing list https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo//firefox-qe

Notes and Actions

Work week results: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1Fj2iofQrJw7m9si88QH5QsRls7yBON0ItpDVx5JbYUU/edit#slide=id.g391416858_053

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • National Holiday in Romania - August 15th (will not be able to cover Beta 7 in Romania)
  • National Holiday in Italy - August 15th
  • Mihaela - PTO - August 4th - 14th
  • Alexandra - PTO - August 11th - 19th
  • Camelia - PTO - August 13th - 14th
  • Petruta - PTO - August 13th - 19th
  • Paul - PTO - August 18th - 22nd
  • Andreea - PTO August 11th - 14th, 18th
  • kbrosnan - Aug 8 through 17th may take the 18th
  • Teodora - PTO -August 13th - 22nd
  • Cristina - PTO -August 13th - 14th
  • Henrik - PTO - August 18th - 22nd
  • Aaron - PTO - August 29th

• Events
  • Firefox 32 Beta 6 Testday - August 14th - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20140814

Q3 Goals

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q3

Community

• [tracy] working on pathways for Fx team. It will have a high level approach available by end of week. There will be many pointers to needed documentation and/or processes (e.g. badges)
• [francesca] trying and editing all one and done tasks

Channel Status

Beta (Fx 32) (Desktop - Juan/Kamil Mobile - Aaron/Kevin )

• 32.0b5 is/was very unstable for people with certain adware installed, a backout hopefully improves that for b6 (see stability)

Nightly (Fx 34)(Desktop - Liz Mobile - Aaron/Kevin)

• larch (project branch) will be used for tablet UI refresh work (Fx35)
• the patch that caused the crash mentioned above (NSAttribute) is not yet backed out for Nightly but IIDs will be updated instead

Security

• Assessment of Shumway, working on test plan outline

Automation (whimboo)

• General
  • Firefox Automation report – week 27/28 2014: http://www.hskupin.info/2014/08/13/firefox-automation-report-week-27-28-2014/
• Mozmill
  • We stopped running endurance and addon tests for Firefox versions other than Nightly
  • 20 new locales have been added for testing against Firefox Beta and Release - next 10 locales are about to get enabled
• Puppet
  • All proxy related features and bug fixes are checked in now
  • Remaining blocker for moving our mozmill machines to puppetagain controlled hosts is the screen resolution
• TPS
  • All tests are green for half a month now on Linux - working on getting add-on installation failure sorted out on OS X (bug 1052312)
  • restmail.net was down due to a domain transfer lately so causing lots of failures (bug 1050313)
  • Draft for moving TPS framework code out of mozilla-central to its own repository on github (bug 1037084)
  • We will shutdown the old Coversheet CI system soon

Stability

• The supposed crash fix in bug 1038243 made things even worse for people with that adware. This is being backed out across channels, and Nightly will have a "proper" fix by revving IIDs, done in bug 1051858.
• Aurora still has OMTC IPC crash bug 1021053 as #1, devs seem to be looking into it.
• Thanks to Alexandra Lucinet for great testing of openh264 crash reporting! [lizzard]