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QA Staff Meeting Notes February 29, 2012

Meeting Details

 # Every Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Warp Core 
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 #         +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312 (Canada)
 # IRC:    irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa

QA Org Items

• New Hires & Interviews
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• Community Members Onboarding
  • Mohamed (past intern) back doing more work for apps qa
• Upcoming Events
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• PTOs
  • marcia 3/1-3/2
  • juanb 3/26 - 4/6 (two weeks)

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

• Fx.Next
  • 11.0b5 available for testing (test plan), targeting release on Friday
  • 11.0b6 go to build Monday, targeting release on Wednesday
  • 3.6.13 -> 10.0.2 live yesterday, targeting major updates for straggler releases (3.6.* and Betas)
  • Windows 2000 support dropped for Nightly as of today (bug 699247)
  • Feedback of "slowness" have increased by ~50% between Firefox 10 and 11
    • Please run the Beta as your daily build and report any noticeable slowness to Juan, Anthony, and Cheng
    • We are trying to reach out to anyone who can reproduce any "slow" condition
    • There's a thread on r-d titled "Re: Slowness reports on beta, what to do"
• Firefox ESR (ashughes)
  • 10.0.3 go to build Friday (based on Firefox 11)
• Crash Investigation
  • Stability Report for this week
  • Early version of Stability Dashboard
  • Looking at tracking bugs for Firefox 11: Tracking 11
• Automation
  • Vlad and Alex now have commit access, will hopefully accelerate our landing performance

Apps Desktop and Mobile (DavidC)

• What happened this week?
  • Finalized top apps quality analysis to determine what apps to demo (jsmith)
    • MWC apps selected is here
    • Quality analysis is here
    • Tagged Soup release 0.4 with MWC blockers all fixed
  • Supported MWC demo team as needed (e.g. IT Support document, answer questions, top apps screenshots) (jsmith + tchung)
• Myapps staging server
  • Deployed Myapps rpm, Appsync rpm
  • DNS changes were approved and put in place
• MochiTest WebApps
  • (Worked with Geo) to setup an initial dummy test
  • Created a blog post to advertise how it was done, as well as serve as a guide as to how to write more
    • http://onecyrenus.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/github-webapps-mochitest-repo/

• What's next?
  • Verify that we can test the myapps staging service using the extension, firefox, chrome..etc.
  • Post-MWC cleanup (e.g. make sure bugs are all logged, documentation updated for test cases, apps strategy on-going) (jsmith)
  • Web compatibility discussion and analysis (fennec + apps)
  • Manual test run to check quality state of desktop app experience (jsmith)
  • MWC QA Retrospective (jsmith + marlena)

Browser Technologies (Tony)

• Issues
• Fennec (Kevin/Aaron)
  • Doing daily triage and bug noms against this list (from Mobile/Triage page)
    • M: 9am PST, W,F: 7am PST, T,Th: 1pm PST
  • Discussion on breaking out automated fennec smoketests in robocop
    • Tests will be organized here
  • Daily testing on Maple and Nightly builds
  • Stability (nhirata)
    • Crash Report and Soccorro work for 2/29/2012
• Sync (Tracy)
  • Sign off on a small desktop train last week
  • tested around Android Sync bookmarks improvements
    • nightly user found bug 731024
  • blogging about sync QA to commence this week (I've never been a good writer, so I'm just a leettle ascared to start)
• Test pilot (tracy)
  • nothing to report this week
• Sync Server (jbonacci/jrgm)
  • security review of tokenserver
• BrowserID (jbonacci/jrgm)
  • browserid train-2012.02.16 going to production today (02/29)
• Pancake (nhirata)
  • Need to work on cleaning up the bug database and catching up
• B2G/WebAPIs (jhammink)
  • MWC workweek was a success!
  • doing tri-weekly test pass against latest b2G gonk gaia. Test Spec and Test Log is here: http://shrt.st/2dck
  • also triaging bugs for gonk/gaia
  • redoing test plan against M2.1 Target: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Planning/2.1#Projects
  • also looking into automation plan; some scripts ready for mozSMS, mozTelephony - still needing edge case work
  • adding one more build machine to support new targets (Maguro/Akami)

WebQA (Stephen)

• Affiliates
  • Successful 2.22.12 release
  • no release this week - Flux team is having a workweek
• AMO
  • We shipped marketplace.mozilla.org yesterday.
  • AMO 6.4.4 is scheduled to go out tomorrow (03/01).
  • We've got mobile tests
  • Merged another contributor test
  • Thanks to Automation Services for their help this week!
• Engagement Projects
  • Likely shipping Flicks today
  • DTPT phase II on hold for security review
  • Betafarm is now in process
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped 1.8 milestone
• Mozillians
  • Feature testing is currently blocked by bug 731206
  • We have 2 new contributors on the project. One WebDev and one QA.
• MDN
  • shipped 2.3 milestone
• Socorro
  • 2.4.4 milestone successfully released today
  • May do an out of band release to land ESR support
• SUMO
  • 2/28 release went out
  • 3/6 in process

Community (Marcia)

• Events
  • Tech Talk at Brown University last week went well
  • Haven't heard response back yet re: MozCamp Latin America
  • Results of Dave Hunt's WebQA live testday
  • Selenium Meetup tonight: http://www.meetup.com/seleniumsanfrancisco/events/51852312/
• Upcoming Testdays/BugDays/Meetups
  • SUMO Questions day tomorrow
  • Aurora Features testday friday
  • Browser ID testday next week
• Video Work
  • Planned work on new nightly first page video will resume next week
• QMO.next (Raymond):

QA Automation Service (Henrik, David)

General

• Helped BrowserID get up and running with a CI

Project updates

On-Demand Test Framework (Geo)

• Updating deployment documentation for Windows slaves
• Modifying job creation scripts to accurately replace previously created jobs

Mozmill 2.0 Automation Scripts Update (Henrik)

• David Guo is investigating if a smooth upgrade of our scripts to Mozmill 2.0 is possible
• If it turns out end of this week it's not possible, we will start from scratch

CI system for daily and l10n Firefox Builds (Henrik)

• Added mozilla-esr10 builds to test matrix
• Fixed some smaller bugs

Mozmill Dashboard Validation (DavidB)

• No update

MemChaser extension (Henrik)

• Repository has been moved to https://github.com/mozilla/memchaser
• Working excessively on getting version 0.2 released with incremental GC support - hopefully we can upload the version on AMO later today
• CI Setup is done and runs on every commit

Open Positions (DavidB)

• No update

Weekly Blog Posts

• 13 - 17 February

Case Conductor

• Still working with IT on getting 0.8 deployed to staging.
  • Haven't heard from them in a couple days, so I bumped the priority to Critical and pinged mrz and solarce (the IT guy assigned)
• Requested the infrrasec review
• Working with Ubuntu on their evaluation
• Stephend and I to start getting Jenkins setup to run tests once staging -dev server is setup.
• 1.0 still slated for 3/30

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