QA/Browser Technologies/2011-05-19

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Discussion Items

• Fennec Stuff
  • branch testing / deployment. Thoughts so far?
    • discussion big thing is getting to beta, to get the audience feedback
    • nothing has been blockable yet
    • concerning that locale switcher into 5 beta. (we didnt have heads up on this) wasnt this a fennec 6 issue
    • also about bugs that are fixed that need approval for landing (eg. password one)
    • QA would want to advocate for pushing out beta deployments if major bugs are landing (eg. password one). we'll need to discuss this with dev
    • documentation and testplans seem to be fine
    • Q: Clone the test suites for branch?
      • discussion keep the existing suite at 1, and add tests to keep it simple. also, TCM will handle tagging and grouping test suites; reduce dupes
  • Updates on Device services
    • discussion Kevin & Waverley ran the trial period, no big red flags. Except long tap isnt available. Naoki will try out the service and test around VKB
  • community device support update (aaronmt)

• Services QA
  • Weekly s-c deployment update (tracy)
  • some projects are revisiting strategy
  • Functional Load test automation project (owen)

• Jetpack / Flightdeck update (tchung)
  • FD work: transferred to webdevqa
  • Jetpack work: no resources

• Hiring update (tchung)

Project Status

• Fennec
  • Execution (aakash)
    • Fx5 and Fx6 test plans created
  • Automation (martijn)
    • First version of Test harness extension with reftests working
    • The reftests need to be run from outside the extension directory, working on that
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Browser_Technologies/Mobile_Unit_Testing_Addon
  • Website Compatibility / Device Compatibility (aaront)
    • Website compatibility form rewritten
    • untested device backlog survey published ~ 70 responses thus far

• Sync (Tracy)
  • Weekly train model is working well. Not getting overloaded with big change sets any longer.

• Test pilot (tracy)
  • 1.2pre 4/5 builds in testing this week
  • Awesomebar HD study pushed to limited audience

• Identity (tracy)
  • Project responding to security issues (Thunder out this week)

• Share (Aaron)
  • Will not land in Firefox 6, their target land date was missed, awaiting response about their definitive answer to the internal prd

• FF Home (Naoki)
  • Still waiting for more stuff from Dev; Fennec put as priority until then
  • Visual Designs : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Home/Features/ux

• Open Web Apps (tchung)
  • no updates