Firefox QA Standup - September 9th, 2015

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
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-09-02-2015

Attendees:

Discussion Items

• [Florin] Desktop General status - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/DesktopManualQAWeeklyStatus
  • Builds sign off - 41 Beta 7 & 8
  • Feature testing - main focus on Control Center and Unified Telemetry
  • Main focus:
    • Build sign offs - 41 Beta 7 & 8
    • Beta Features sign-off - Unified Telemetry, Async Plugin Init, New Add-on Signing,Hello - Text Chat

• [Ioana] Mobile updates:

Major New Desktop Features status

• [Andrei & Cornel] Windows 10
  • Investigated an issue involving the stub installer - http://bugzil.la/1190351; turns out to be a bug affecting all Windows versions, as the stub will not pin the application to the task bar in specific conditions.

• [Bogdan] Hello - Text Chat (Fx 41) (read only)
  • No updates - Bogdan on PTO

• [Ica] Add-ons Signing (Fx 41)
  • Feature looks good
  • There are still present a few Ui issues related to simultaneous doorhangers display

• [Paul] Control Center (Fx 42)
  • no updates, continued with bugs verification

• [Petra] Async Plugin (Fx 41)
  • https://bugzil.la/1198590#c15 - the current plan is to land a whitelisting approach for 41 that will only enable it for certain plugins
  • Patch for this landed in https://bugzil.la/1194488 and was already uplifted for b9

Project Updates

• Metrics / Dashboards (KaiRo)
  • Crash category graphs:
    • https://arewestableyet.com/graph/?fxbeta-bcat (browser process)
    • https://arewestableyet.com/graph/?fxaurora-ccat (content process)
    • Prototype for office screens: https://arewestableyet.com/office/ (random channel)

• Stability (KaiRo)

• EME automation + YouTube MSE automation [sydpolk]
  • Netflix sometimes prompts for Silverlight (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187471 )
  • YouTube sometimes prompts for Flash (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203130 )
  • Network bandwidth limiting tests for video ready to be deployed to Jenkins
  • Wrote several script to manage Jenkins programatically and re-implemented mse webplatform and webrtc Jenkins job integration scripts.

• Mobile

Notes and Actions

• KaiRo will meet with RyanVM tomorrow to talk about our respective roles in QA

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • Bogdan Maris - Aug 31 - Sep 11
  • Camelia Badau - Aug 31 - Sep 9

• Events
  • [Florin] Firefox 41 Beta 7 Testday last Friday, Sep 4th - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20150904
    • focus on Flash in 64 bit builds and general plugin compatibility
    • 7 people participated, no notable issues encountered
  • [Florin] Firefox 42 Aurora Testday this Friday, Sep 11th - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20150911
    • focus on main Fx 42 features: Control Center, Fx Hello improvements, Tab visual sound indicator

Community

Channel Status

Release (Fx 40)(Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

Beta (Fx41) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

• Sync issues found in yesterday's b8 testing were server-side and should be resolved.
  • (Andrei) Great! Cornel confirmed the fix for this issue this morning.

Aurora (Fx 42) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

• e10s will be disabled on 42 this week, will be enabled again on 43 dev edition

Nightly (Fx 43) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

ESR (Fx 38.2.0)

Security

Automation (whimboo)

• Both staging and production Jenkins masters have been replaced with Ubuntu 14.04 64bit to hopefully fix the Java crashes
• Major issues with aborted builds which keep Firefox running - if you run tests please never abort but let them finish even with failures