EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-08-29

RoundTable

• Welcome to Trevor Fairey, our new Mountain View based Intern.
  • He'll be working with us through December, say hi and introduce yourselves.

Goals

• Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours.
• Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
• Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

Automation

• Go Faster (P1) - jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert, wlach
  • potentially running mochitests that never fail less often - jgriffin
  • Go Faster Dashboards - wlach
    • Linkable!
    • Charts which show actual progress towards our end-goal: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/#/endtoend/average
    • Now have buildcharts showing where bottlenecks are: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/gofaster/#/buildcharts
    • No more hicharts.js, now 100% free software!
  • mochitest profiling suite - mdas
    • Profiler suites done, currently writing up and testing the pulse listener and autolog submission code for linux and windows vms.

• Mobile Support (P1) - jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert
  • Tegra Pool Automation - jhammel, ??

• Bug Hunter (P1) - bc
  • Bug Hunter UI - mcote, bc
    • Some bug fixes and improvements.
    • jeads made an ER diagram and is learning the system.

• Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1) - jhammel, harth, ctalbert
  • last A*Team bug....done?
  • a little debris lying around: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=mozmill-2.0%2B&product=Testing&resolution=---&list_id=1193939 ; need to triage
  • QA uptake: unknown

• Crossweave 2 - jgriffin

Performance

• Talos/User Responsiveness (P1) - anode, ted

• Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1) - anode

• Talos/Xperf (P2) - jmaher

• SpeedTests (P2) - mcote
  • Mostly done new client, which runs each test in its own browser session rather than chaining them together, and proxies results through the local client.
    • This isolates the tests, in case one test causes a crash.
    • This also allows results to be presented locally, so users can run the suite without submitting results to the central db.
  • Working on a new results front-end.

• Eideticker (P2) - mcote
  • Dev machine was shipped last Thursday; should hopefully arrive this week.

Web Tools

• War on Orange/Auto-log (P1) - jgriffin, mcote
  • Security review is underway; mcote answered some questions and helped the reviewer set up a local copy for investigation. No results yet.

• Bugzilla Improvements (P1) - dkl, glob
  • inline-history deployed
  • deployed new firefox review flag and mechanics
  • new: abusive comment reporting mechanism (pre-planning stage)
  • new: autolander bugzilla interface

• Regression Hunter (P1) - harth

• DXR Automation/Support {P2} - mdas
  • Focused on mochitest stuff this past week since there's no DXR lead yet, and probably won't be for a month, but jcranmer (former intern) is now more available and I can refer to him. Will be working on this after profiling suite is done.

• Personal Bugzilla Dashboard (P2) - harth

Tool Infrastructure

• SpecialPowers (P1) - jmaher, ted

• MozBase (P2) - jmaher, jhammel, ted
  • still charting the details for python importing and where things live; updated communique soon

• Web UX Platform (P2) - mcote, harth
  • wlach made some minor improvements, landing soon?

• flyingtanks - mcote
  • No updates.

Misc

Overheard in the Mountain View office this morning...

• BMOSS walks in
• BMOSS: Hi Jeffrey! Back from SF?
• JHAMMEL: Yeah...haven't figured out vidyo from there...
• BMOSS sits down, realizes phone is dead, starts pulling the battery out to reset it.
• BMOSS (mutters): I'll be glad when your replacement gets here you stupid piece of crap.
• JHAMMEL: Bob, you know I can hear you, right?