QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-10-24-2012

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QA Org Items

    New Hires & Interviews 
       A couple of management candidates and a directorial candidate
       Bug master candidate will talk to a couple more people.

    Upcoming Events/Conferences 

    Notices

Travel / PTO

    [jsmith] PTO on 10/25

    ashughes PTO 10/25-10/28

    Aaron PTO 10/26

    rbillings 10/25 afternoon + 10/26

QA Team Updates
Desktop (Juan)

    Firefox

       Facebook Messenger for Firefox is turned on in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly, go to https://www.facebook.com/about/messenger-for-firefox to activate
       file bugs in Firefox::Social API in Bugzilla

       Firefox 17.0b3 candidates available for testing, targeting release today

       https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_17/Test_Plan#Beta_3

       Firefox 16.0.2 candidates available for testing, targeting release on Friday

       Click-to-Play blocklist has been staged for Flash and Java for Firefox 17+
              https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Plugins/CTP_Blocklist

    ESR (ashughes) 

       10.0.10esr candidates available for testing, targeting release on Friday

       https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_10_ESR/Test_Plan#Firefox_10.0.10_ESR

    Stability (marcia) 

       Weekly Platform Stability Report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2012-10-23#Desktop

    Automation (ashughes)

       no updates

    Sync Client (Tracy) 

       Code refactor client train tested by myself and community was pushed to m-c on Monday

    Community 

       Planning a PDF.js testday for Nov 1st, Social API testday for Nov 16th

Mobile (Tony) 

    Issues 

    Fennec: fx17b3 out today

      Limited Armv6 phone support is going into final?

      testday next friday, nov 2

    B2G: focused on testcase mapping and reporting

      dogfood phones are out, influx of feedback coming in now

      Triage on platform and Gaia are moving toward stricter blocking+ rules.  help with qawanted bugs

    Fennec (Kevin/Aaron) 
      17.0b3/16.0.2
      17b3 signed off

     Stability (nhirata) 

    Nightly

      fix for bug 803289 in as of yesterday, still need to monitor/test

      bug 781259 is reproducible.

    Aurora

      small spike in aurora due to bug 791441, need str

    B2G (Geo/tchung) 

    Gecko status :

      Unblocked on the mochitest sanity test suite. Currently vetting it against current codebase

      Perms testing on B2G still  dependent on mochitest-chrome. Discussions with dougt happening about  how we can move forward testing perms manager on desktop while waiting  for dependencies to unblock.

      More alarm, device storage, power management, contacts mochitests tests being finished up and due in this week.

      Working out w/ whimboo, dhunt, rwood how to split automation work between A-Team and B2G QA.

    Gaia status : 

    https://mozqa.etherpad.mozilla.org/qa-state-of-gaia

    Stability (nhirata)

    Margaret working on front end

    still need ADU measurement

    symbols still needed for socorro

    Dogfooding (marcia)

    Dogfooding is generating lots of duplicate bugs

    Before filing dogfooders should query for "unagi" bugs/look at nhirata's spreadsheet to at least have a quick look as many obvious issues are already filed

    Reports

    First iteration the Usecase to Testcase to Results report is complete

    In progress - 

    report mapping bugs to component areas

    status per app

    Apps (Jason) 

    Test cases defined for  payments on the API side have an initial minddump. Holding off on apps  testing on device until some of the rework is completed on the platform +  front-end.

    Bug 803790 - Installing of packaged apps with the mini-manifest is broken

    Community Members Onboarding

Services (jrgm) 

    Sync Server (jrgm) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Sync/

    BrowserID (jrgm) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/BrowserID

      finishing off train-2012.10.12 for production ship tomorrow which is >6 weeks of code changes

      starting work with bigtent

    Hiring and Training 

Web (Stephen)  

    Affiliates 

      Last week's release withheld due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760631

      New target is next week after the Engagement team's workweek

    B2G/Gaia testing: 

      Moztrap birt reports

      Meeting (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/B2G_Test_And_Performance) tomorrow with the A-team to figure out on-device Gaia-test running: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801898

    Smoke tests written for taking picture, video, making call, sending sms, adding contact. Overall stability not there but fundamentals are being built.

    Bouncer 

      Release scheduled for this week - Sentry/Bouncer location availability improvements 

      https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804347

    Firefox Marketplace 

      Tested features and bug fixes for tomorrow's release on Marketplace-dev Consumer Pages on Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S3 (FF19, Android 4.1.1, Android 4.0.4), Desktop (FF19, Win 7) and Gaia B2G

      Regression-tested on AMO-dev in FF16 (Win 7)

    Mozilla.com 

      pushed changes to content pages and some redirect fixes this week

    Mozillians 

      No updates -- the team has been in a workweek

    MDN 

      No updates

    Socorro 

      Small release today - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=24;product=Socorro;list_id=4765891

    Django-rewrite (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788003) is going well; new bugs added frequently

      still behind VPN; needs to pass App/InfraSec review before we stage it properly

    Community Members Onboarding

      new member "Keki" is working through setting up SUMO / virtualenv, to start running automation

Community (Marcia)

    Past Events

      Italy Workshop was very well received

      Blog Post and Pictures coming soon

      Several students were interested in internships

    Upcoming Events 

      Mozilla Festival - November 7-9 in London

      The session will be called "One and Done" - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Festival2012/Submit/OneAndDone - and is focused around creating a prototype dashboard for a community task manager.

    Testdays (ashughes)

    SUMO Questions day tomorrow: https://quality.mozilla.org/2012/10/sumo-questions-day-thursday-october-25th/

    Video Work

    QMO.next (Raymond)

      pushed fix to XSS bug yesterday with the help of mfuller

    Community Members Onboarding

    Presentation

      Jason presented an overview of mobile web compatibility testing and hands-on testing session: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobilewebtestevent

 
Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)   
  

    General
      Automation and Tools workweek is currently happening in Toronto

    MozTrap (Cameron)

    Community Members Onboarding 

Basecamp Roundtable/Discussion Items 

    [item here]

Other Roundtable/Discussion Items  

    Mapping of Apps use cases->test cases in MozTrap (bmoss)

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items    

    Today 

    Notes

    Action Items

    Last Meeting 

    Action Items 

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