EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-12-12

The Overview

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Bugzilla

• Employee Incident bug entry form deployed for mcoates
• Working on Recovery Key form also for mcoates
• Email to IT asking for current backup/recovery plan for BMO in wake of email meltdown
• Bringing old test scripts up to speed with latest Bugzilla 4.2 code
• Some minor work on REST/testing

Bughunter

• site test assertions, unittest assertions and unittest valgrind ui done to a first approximation
• finished implementing view collections. This feature allows a user to open a set of data views that work together, they are defined in a JSON structure
• migration to the cluster has been halted due to networking problems in phx

Eideticker

• Eideticker has a new, much simpler harness and tests are much easier to write
• reworked the capture analysis API to use numpy behind the scenes
• added the beginnings of a web interface for browsing captures and doing visualizations on them
• See also: http://masalalabs.ca/

Marionette

• jgriffin and mdas in Taipei
• gave a short talk on Marionette on Thursday, and it was well received
• desktop support for marionette has been added this week with simpletest-like functionality
• Documentation was also updated and added, notably https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Marionette#Writing_Tests and Marionette client api page(https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Marionette/Marionette_Client_API)
• working on adding support for JS-only tests, landing Marionette in the master B2G repo, working out a few kinks in the continuous integration framework we wrote, and getting the emulator to work with the gonk (b2g) backend

Mobile Automation

• keeping fennec reftest patch up to date (jmaher)

Mozbase

• working on a better URL dispatching system for mozhttpd
• mozbase now has unified unit tests; need to coordinate with ManifestDestiny's doctests
• coordinating getting CI (buildbot) working with jgriffin, mcote, and wlach
• documentation improvements to Mozbase and Mozilla python general: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Python (Still tons to do)

Peptest

• the make target landed (run make peptest to try it out)
• looked into adding a profiler, have some work in an experimental branch, but going to wait until it lands and gets some better docs

Robocop

• close to a reviewable patch to m-c to add robocop to the toolchain
• starting to figure out a solution for running robotium in talos as well as in releng
• next week there will be a patch to integrate to the make system

Tegra Pool

Nothing to see here move along.

Talos

• Bug 707218 - write a script to create a talos.zip file with the dependencies from mozbase; ready and tested on A*Team staging (needs releng testing + approval)
• BYK plans to finish https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673132 :)

Speedtests

• Nothing to see here move along.

Mozmill

• Nothing to see here move along.

WebRTC

• Nothing to see here move along.

War On Orange

Nothing to see here, move along

Upcoming Events

All times Pacific Time, click on link to find your timezone

• Platform Meeting (all platform engineers) Tuesday at 11AM, Conf # 8605.
• Mobile Test Automation Wednesday at 10:30AM #304
• Marionette/Eideticker Meeting Thursday at 10AM Conf # 304
• Trevor doing a presentation on his term on Wednesday at Noon.

Round Table

Put your questions and things to raise with the entire team here

• (from ctalbert): We have only two weeks left in the quarter. And those weeks include christmas and new year's. So, ensure all things that are on track are really on track. If there's anything that isn't you should have let me know a week ago. If something has changed, let me know, call my cell (it's in the phonebook).
  • I've marked status on our goals, feel free to update.

Misc

Find something you think is cool, interesting, funny, or exciting and put it here

• A couple links for Trevor's last week:
  • His soon-to-be-favorite-song ;)
  • His Christmas outfit
• A few links from Clint's trip:
  • Across the mojave desert
  • High Desert of AZ covered in snow
  • Toward Red River NM
  • Sunset on the Western Side of the Enchanted Circle, over Eagles Nest Lake
  • In Lubbock this morning, full steam to Austin. See y'all soon.