Web Testing/Automation/automation-27-01-2011

Discussion topics

Grid Updating
- Current plan: Have multiple environments with the same name running for the popular test environments (i.e. Firefox-default;en-us;MacOSX6) and let Grid distribute the jobs accordingly. There will be ~4 environments of Firefox-default;en-us;MacOSX6, and so 4 concurrent executors active on Hudson. As for the other environments, we can have as many copies of selenium running of them as we see fit.
Tanay sent email about using screen - any objections? I confess it'd probably take me a bit to ramp up on, but if the folks who are maintaining Grid think it'd be more useful, then I'm all for it - stephend
Someone needs to own Grid, which means:
- Keeping browsers up-to-date (within versions)
- Upgrading VMWare Fusion
- etc.
Input Tests require the latest beta, can Raymond/Tanay tell us if we have one set up so we can add a new test to be run?
Adding Notes to CI Task so others can see

AMO rewrite has started
- Tests are in my Github at the moment. Unfortunately not had time to expand because of playing "whack the mole" with current AMO tests

We should flag in-testsuite? for bugs that either aren't covered by unit tests, or could use more coverage
- Absolutely- there are some waiting, and more will be added [RB]

Have Tobbi, a contributor and soon to be intern, started looking at these
We still get lots (too many) service unavailable messages
- Takes time to be sure it's the cause of failures - screenshots would help here
We currently need to update when new Firefox desktop/mobile versions are available, perhaps come up with better solution if this becomes a maintenance issue

Raymond and Tanay to have a look at capacity needs for the Grid and mail the team. Do we need more than 1 Mac Mini?
DavidB is to have a look at Screen
DavidB to look at screen shots on Hudson