QA/Execution/Web Testing/Mozilla.com/Tips and Pointers

Mozilla.com has a three-tier system:

• trunk
• staging
• production

Fixes are usually checked into SVN, and trunk pulls from SVN almost instantaneously; once changes are tested and verified, they can be pushed to staging; alternatively, they can be pushed to both staging and production if need be.

Redirects / user-agent detection

• Redirects:
  • Most redirects happen in .htaccess (302s, usually)
• User-agent detection:
  • Usually uses RewriteCond rules