QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-04-27-2011

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QA Staff Meeting Notes Apr 27, 2011

Upcoming Test Events

• No testday Friday?

Project Status

• Overview (2 min brief update)

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

• Fx.Next
  • Aurora(5) -> Beta, May 17th
    • Channel switcher should be all tested a week+ before then.
  • Workspaces in development on Nightly(6)

Maintenance and Security (Al)

• 3.6.17, 3.5.19, and 4.0.1 shipping tomorrow, 4/28.
  • Advertised major update from 3.6.17 to 4.0.1 on Tuesday. First advertised major update.
• 3.5.19 end of life'd after this release. In either late May or June (still debating), we will minor update 3.5.19 users to 3.6.17.
• Still discussing whether there will be a 4.0.2 at all or if everything will wait for Firefox 5.

Browser Technologies (Tony)

• Fennec (aakash)

• Automation (martijn)

• Sync (Tracy)
  • Services projects are adopting a weekly development cycle. Essentially this is to get tighter control of change sets as they push to m-c from s-c. Processes listed below:
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Process/MergingBetweenBranches#Merging_from_services-central_to_mozilla-central
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Process/ServerReleaseProcess

• Test pilot (tracy)
  • TP1.2.pre4 should be available to test this week. Still ironing out some issues with the change over to Fx built in notification system.
  • We are finalizing a plan to handle increasing new study load. We reviewed the release requirements yesterday. Jono is doing a cleanup of https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmrhlMowAI9CdEpHV3ZuTmRYSzhTeG5PWWJvTEZ3R2c&hl=en&authkey=CPbSjNAC#gid=0 for QA to approve. May have to bring in Waverly to get full breadth of OS and channel coverage.

• Identity (tracy)
  • We reviewed the project with Dan Mills. It looks more complex than QA initially anticipated. They are charging forward with plans to have this work a variety of ways across browsers. Test plan forth coming.

• Jetpack (ayan)
  • Flightdeck 0.9.3 release tomorrow.
  • Jetpack SDK 1.0a5 code freeze today.
  • Waiting for Selenium mouse event APIs to land.

• Firefox Home (nhirata)
  • Waiting for more planning to get done before revamp of the test plan
  • Looking into Selenium 2 for possible automation.

• Share (aaronmt)
  • Web client staging server is being worked on, tracking bug 650900
  • Tying to land chrome by may 10, there is a landing meta bug 651668 that has all dependencies for landing chrome pieces
  • Preliminary wip project testplan page now up, starting to flesh out testcases in a spreadsheet
  • Roadmap

WebQA (Stephen)

AMO

• AMO 6.0.6 went live on 04/21
• AMO 6.0.7 is scheduled to go live on 04/28

FF Engagement Projects

• Working on Markup, ships May 10th, 2011

Mozilla.com

• Working on 2.3 which ships Tuesday May 3rd, 2011

MDN

• Working on 0.9.4 which ships Thursday April 28th, 2011

Web of Wonder

• Shipped Web of Wonder 2.2 April 27th , 2011

Spark

• EOL May 31, 2011

Socorro

• Shipped 1.7.7 on April 21st, 2011
• Working on 1.7.8, slated for May 19th, 2011

SUMO

• Shipped SUMO 2.8 on Tues 4/26
• Working on SUMO 2.8.1 slated for Tues 5/1

Input

• Input 3.4 slated for May 27th, 2011
• substantial refactoring of tests in the pipeline

Community (Marcia)

• Crash Investigation
  • Stability Report - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2011-04-26#Stability_Report
  • Actively filing bugs for Trunk, Aurora, etc.

• New Community Etherpad
  • Going forward we will be using http://mozqa.sync.in/25 weekly to track work related to the community. This includes:
    • Testday and Bugdays
    • Meetups and Community Events
      • http://quality.mozilla.org/category/events/ has no events, what about the meetup event in London?
    • Community Building Initiatives

• Video Work
  • Marcia just back so she needs to follow up with Rainer re: video progress

• Accessibility (Marco):

• QMO.next (Al):

Test Automation (Henrik)

General

• Goals for Q2 / 2011 have been defined
• Currently updating the team wiki pages to reflect our Q2 initiatives

Mozmill

• Mozmill 1.5.3 has only be reviewed preliminary - another hotfix releases scheduled within the next ~2 weeks.

Project updates

Shared Module Refactoring

• Preliminary work done on window handling
• Removed 3rd party inheritance library, replaced with JS native inheritance
• Driving towards Milestone 2

Mozmill Tests for the Discovery Pane of the Addons Manager (ashughes)

• Closer work with Krupa to get the most important tests scripted in Litmus
• Waiting for Anthony to return from vacation

Endurance Tests

• Work on performance improvements for the dashboard views

On Demand Updates

• Will be walking through a re-creation of 3.6.17 beta release testing w/ stakeholders (abillings, ashughes)
• Hot issue: will have separate update clusters, need to add cluster addressing to kickoff scripts

Events

• Henrik is in Romania next week to keep up with Waverly on Automation
• Henrik is at the London Tester Gathering meetup

Discussion Items

• Romania trip next week - matt
• Scrumpads discussion - matt
• What's up with QA Services? - matt
• pass down from directors meeting (http://mozqa.sync.in/3 (notes-mevans-11-02-17)
• Contributor response emails
  • Talking with David Boswell tomorrow (Thu) to discuss how the contribute form has been used by other groups, what works what doesn't.
  • contribute-qa@m.c list ready, will be channeling contribute emails to that. Those of you answering mails should request to be added.

Takeaways and Action Items

Item	Owner	Due	Done?