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== Goals for Litmus ==
Litmus will:
* make it easier for casual testers to assist with testing Mozilla products;
* serve as a repository for test cases, with all the inherent management abilities that implies;
* serve as a repository for test results, carrying over the best features of Testrunner, e.g. test lists, division of labor, etc.;
* provide a query interface for viewing, reporting on, and comparing test results;
* provide expose a request web services interface whereby developers can queue testing requests for patches, fixes, and regressions;* manage the automation of testing requests — one-time, and recurring (e.g. from [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi tinderbox]) — on a new group mechanical batch submission of dedicated testing servers, managing request priorities appropriately;* expose an API to allow developers to work with the various tools easily outside of a graphical environment;* make it easier for casual testers to assist with testing Mozilla productsresults.
Litmus will not:
* be released as a standalone product such as, e.g., Bugzilla, at least not in the [[Litmus:Roadmap|1.0 timeframe]]. We are trying not to paint ourselves into a corner where this is concerned, but many of the decisions and tradeoffs we're making are necessarily Mozilla-centric at this point. Still, the [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/litmus/ code is in CVS] if you want to try your luck or help out.
* manage the automation of testing requests as a centralized test scheduler or daemon. The majority of testing we do, and all of the community testing that we know of, is still done by hand. This doesn't preclude such functionality in the future, but we need to figure out the intricacies of how to automate a larger proportion of our daily testing before it makes sense to spend too much time on scheduling those automated tests. Existing automation frameworks will be able to submit results via web services.
== Further Reading ==
* [[Mozilla_QA|Mozilla QA]]
