QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-01-18-2012

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QA Staff Meeting Notes January 18, 2012

Meeting Details

 # Every other 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
    • item
  • Upcoming Events
    • Jan 20th: Web Apps Extension Based Testing testday this Friday (David Clarke)
    • Feb 3rd - 5th: FOSDEM
      • Anyone else beside Henrik participating this event?
      • Henrik's talk has been approved - which proposal will have the biggest value?
        • CI for Mozmill tests with the focus on localizers and l10n tests
        • Our efforts on investigating memory and GC issues in Firefox (MemChaser extension)
        • General Mozilla QA activities
  • PTOs

Discussion Items

  • Next QA work week?

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox

  • Firefox 9.0.1 Post-Mortem was held today (notes) -- any notes/actions for QA?
  • Firefox Beta (Juan)
    • 10.0b5 builds are available, targeting sign-off by Friday
    • Default Compatible Add-ons
      • Testday results (Marcia)
      • Automation strategy (Henrik, Bob)
    • GC/CC testing (Cameron, Bob)
  • Firefox Aurora (Anthony)
    • All tests for features should be in Litmus by the end of the week so we can do a pre-beta feature sign-off testrun
  • Silent Update (Anthony)
    • UAC Service has landed on Nightly for about a week -- if you use Windows daily, please dogfood nightly -- UAC should not prompt for update authorization
  • Crash Investigation
  • Firefox ESR (Anthony, Al)
    • ownership being transferred to Anthony this week
    • 3.6.25 -> 9.0.1 Major Update happening tomorrow (delayed 1 day due to SOPA protest)
  • Desktop Automation (Anthony)
    • Brasstacks outage is preventing us from checking in patches (dependency for verification of patches) and providing detailed results for release sign-off testing
    • Working on a reference test for the About dialog for the Default Compatible Add-ons automation

Browser Technologies (Tony)

  • Overview (tony)
    • Last week's Apps workweek discussed roadmap
      • Top discussions: mozApp Api's, new platform APi's (support for B2G, desktop, android), and cross team collaboration
    • Services work week is Week of Jan 17th
      • Top discussions: Sync on Android, BrowserID+Sync, & Sagrada Services
    • Mobile World Congress is Week of Feb 27th
  • Sync (Tracy)
    • Sync train this week picking up some Addon Sync changes
    • Workweek planning
  • Test pilot (tracy)
    • We may turn off click to call study
    • building Test Pilot as a jetpack?
  • Sync Server (jbonacci, jrgm)
    • Completed the deployment to Stage and associated testing:
      • Bug 717073 - Update reg and sreg to server-core 2.7-2, and change over to services.user for the backend lib
      • Bug 701941 - Metabug for getting rid of services.auth
      • Bug 715184 - Sync CEF Logging Bug
      • Bug 716547 - Sync error messages
    • Upcoming Maintenance Window for SSL Certs


  • BrowserID (jbonacci, jrgm)
  • Completed Train 18: Bug 715728 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.01.05 to production
      • This train included support for primaries (disabled/off)
    • Next two trains:
      • Train 19
        • Localization in the code, disabled/off
      • Primaries in the code, enabled/on
      • Train 20
        • Localization in the code, enabled/on
  • Firefox Home (nhirata)
    • Waiting for changes to take place
  • WebAPI (jhammink)
  • b2G (jhammink)

WebQA (Stephen)

  • Affiliates:
    • release today
    • Blayne, new contributor will be working on automation
    • rshetty continues to verify releases
  • AMO
  • Engagement Projects
    • Careers is in process, the last round of bugs just got fixed
  • Input
    • not seeing active development
    • big thanks to davehunt for updating our Selenium tests so we are green again
  • Mozilla.com
  • Mozillians:
    • community driven test plan
  • MDN
  • Socorro
  • SUMO
    • 1/10 release and 1/17 release went out
    • 1/24 release in process

Community (Marcia)

  • David Boswell has suggested setting up a standing weekly meeting for us to come up with and execute an action plan for bringing more contributors into all areas of QA.
    • More details about meetings and plans can be tracked on the QA Stewards page:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Stewards/QA.

    • David owns the calendar entry so please contact him if you wish to be added to the meeting. Right now it is on calendar for 4 PM on Mondays.
    • At the last Community Team meeting, the general consensus was to keep the meeting time going forward. It was suggested that we need to change the meeting time.
      • Will need names of people who want to attend this meeting so I can find a time that works.
      • The goals of this meeting will be to brainstorm and identify items that we want to work on, and then in David Boswell's meeting figure out how to accomplish those goals.
  • Fort Lewis College Open Source Software Class - project list
  • Upcoming Testdays/BugDays/Meetups
  • Video Work
  • QMO (Al):
    • Still need confirmation of a new QMO owner.
    • Raymond has volunteered to own it but needs overall approval by Stephen and/or Bob (management)?

QA Automation Service (Henrik, David)

Project updates

CI system for on-demand release tests (Geo)
CI system for daily and l10n Firefox Builds (Henrik)
  • No updates
MemChaser - Memory and Garbage Collection analysis
Compatibile By Default Automation
  • Joined work on the project between QA Automation Services and A-Team
  • We will test 10 add-ons installed by default and sequentially 5 other ones from the top 100 add-ons for en-US, de, and zh-CN versions of Firefox
  • Tests to be executed: endurance, update, endurance, and optionally functional tests
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