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QA Staff Meeting Notes April 11, 2012

Meeting Details

 # Every 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
    • Working on it (jbonacci)
  • Community Members Onboarding
    • item
  • Upcoming Events
    • item
  • PTOs
    • ashughes: Fri Apr 13, Thu Apr 19, Mon Apr 23, working remote every day in between

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

  • Fx.Next
    • Mozmill w/Jenkins working for release testing (special thanks to davidg, davehunt, geo, whimboo)
      • we can now run automation by simply uploading a cfg file to Jenkins
      • this means Softvision can kick off our automation now if builds come out late at night
      • ashughes will be documenting the process once it gets put through a live run
  • Firefox ESR (ashughes)
    • 10.0.4ESR going to build for a beta next week
    • Will also be testing warning billboards / hotfix for Win2k, Win XP SP1, and 3.6 EOL next week
  • Crash Investigation

Browser Technologies (Tony)

  • Issues
  • Fennec (Kevin/Aaron)
    • Stability (nhirata)
      • Stability getting better since the Maple merge. having said that there still needs some work done.
      • see Crash Report and related Socorro work for details.
  • Apps WebRT (David/Jason/Aaron)
    • What happened this week?
      • Finalized Q2 goals discussion for apps - Dissolved into goals for each team
      • More digging into mobile web compatibility here
    • What's next?
  • Sync (Tracy)
    • Android
      • Some more bookmark folder reconciling work done
      • Password work still in holding pattern
      • Form performance improvements landed
    • Desktop
      • A small train of sorts is pending QA today.
      • 2.0 client work being done in git. Nothing to test at this time, per gps.
  • Test pilot (tracy)
    • UI Heatmap 2012 study had to go through a couple of iterations (jono on pto this week)
  • Sync Server (jbonacci/jrgm)
    • Functional and load test of AITC and TokenServer continues on qa1, qa2, and local installs
    • Functional and load test of AITC and TokenServer in Dev continues
    • Test planning for AITC and TokenServer in Stage
    • Rough draft AITC for April Test Plan is posted for review: https://mozqa.etherpad.mozilla.org/79
    • QA team recruiting is just ramping up
  • BrowserID (jbonacci/jrgm)
    • Finishing up current train: Train 24: Bug 740272 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.03.28 to production
    • "Final" BID team Q2 goals should be posted by Thursday
  • Pancake (nhirata)
    • Search mechanism changed
    • Drive to try to release internally either today or tomorrow
      • chances are at earliest it would be next week. Most likely the following week
  • B2G (jhammink/Geo)
    • working on long range/M3 Test Plan for B2G
      • several new features in process of landing
    • Reviewing APIs and test pages with an eye on automation

WebQA (Stephen)

  • Affiliates
    • Release being delayed until tomorrow to complete dev work
    • Moving to continuous deployment (we have statsd)
  • AMO
    • Increased test coverage
    • Improving on making sure build is green
  • Careers page
  • Marketplace
    • Getting litmus tests into tracker for selenium automation
  • Engagement Projects
  • Mozilla.com
    • working on 2.0 release
  • Mozillians
    • Latest release is tagged and ready to be deployed
    • New responsive UI hotness
  • MDN
  • Socorro

Socorro

    • Milestone 6 released today
    • Automation is moving to Webdrive - HUGE shout out to the team for doing the refactor!
  • SUMO
    • continuous deployment

Community (Marcia)

  • Upcoming Events
    • MozCamp LATAM is progressing well
      • Juan, Marcia and John Hammink attending
      • John will present a BOF session on how to build B2G
    • Mini-MozCamp in Italy is at risk
      • Not enough movement on planning. Might be better to postpone until the fall
  • Video Work
  • QMO.next (Raymond):
    • no update

Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

General

Projects

  • Mozmill CI: On-demand solution is live and has been tested by Anthony against Firefox 12.0b5 candidate builds
  • Mozmill CI: Henrik is working to get coverage of beta candidate builds via Pulse by end of this week
  • Tests: Refactoring current Mozmill tests to make them compatible with Mozmill 2.0
MozTrap
  • Beginning dev work on case ID prefix (Ubuntu request)
  • spec'ing out:
    • automation connector
    • global, sticky "Product" filter
    • test run tags features (for Ubuntu and Kilimanjaro)
  • 2012 goals are specified

Roundtable/Discussion Items

  • Kilimanjaro Draft is publicized. Discuss QA strategy and approach (tchung)
  • Q2 Goals for Entire QA Organization (jsmith)
  • Switching meeting structure to new QA org (jsmith)
    • Desktop
    • Mobile
    • Server
    • Web
    • Automation
    • Community
  • From last meeting: Cross QA Team Collaboration Reflection - Come prepared at next staff to do this (jsmith)

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

Today

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Last Meeting

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