Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-06-25
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Goals Progress
Below are our top level goals. Beneath each goal, note any progress made towards that goal this week.
- [ON TRACK] Extend Mobile Platform Automation for B2G and Fennec Native to extend our automation systems to work with specific phone hardware and new development boards for both products.
- [ahal] Got reftests running on B2G emulator. Still very prototype-y but they mostly seem to pass. Still have a fair amount of work before a patch is ready.
- [jgriffin] Got B2G builds working for otoro devices.
- [dburns+mdas] Various marionette bug fixes
- [ON TRACK] Datazilla: Provide generic interfaces/web app plugability for new harnesses to reuse the same infrastructure backend
- [carljm] made administration easier by hooking standalone scripts into Django management commands
- [jeads] made progress on the security review scheduled on Friday. Has list of action items to complete by then
- [jeads] Validated the t-test method with the metrics team. Used actual datazilla data.
- [MISSED] Datazilla: Ensure that new UI is based on extensible statistics package that can be used both by developers and the graphserver UI.
- [ON TRACK] Signal From Noise Phase II - Make the same noise-reduction changes we made on Tp5 on all the other page-load tests and ensure all performance tests are sending raw observations to Datazilla.
- [jhammel] Refactored and landed the results/reporting in talos. Will make future work easier (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755527 for more details)
- [ON TRACK] Refactor how rapid-release tracking flags are implemented for improved performance and maintainability
- [AT RISK] Upgrade bugzilla.mozilla.org to Bugzilla version 4.2
- [glob+dkl] Testing of BMO 4.2 code and debugging and fixing of several issues such as HTML email, SecureMail, etc.
- [glob] Successful QA Contact Migration test run on bugzilla-stage.mozilla.org. Scheduled for around July 4th to 6th.
- [ON TRACK] Reduce android test automation instability and make it easier for the web QA and desktop QA teams to write and run automated tests.
Highlights
This is a place for people to put announcements or to describe activities that they'd like to highlight. It's not the responsibility of the MC to find things to put here.
- [davehunt] Released pytest-mozwebqa 1.0 - a plugin used primarily by Web QA for Selenium test automation. Happy to give a demo of it in a future meeting.
In-Depth Project Discussion
Progress, notes, problems, and other statuses about current projects. Add any new projects to this template!
AutoPhone/Noah's Ark
Bughunter
- [bc] Working on Flash related crashes.
Bugzilla
- http://globau.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/happy-bmo-push-day-2/
- [glob+dkl] Normal Bugzilla administrative (user, products, components, etc.) tasks and pushing of code updates
- [glob+dkl] Testing of BMO 4.2 code and debugging and fixing of several issues such as HTML email, SecureMail, etc.
- [glob] Successful QA Contact Migration test run on bugzilla-stage.mozilla.org. Scheduled for around July 4th to 6th.
- [glob] Service Now integration with BMO
- [dkl] Porting of FrontPage and ProductBrowser extensions to BMO and installed on bugzilla-stage-tip for feedback. https://bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=frontpage.html and https://bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html
- [glob+dkl] Some work related to specialized BMO bug entry forms such as Finance, REMO, and Privacy.
Eideticker
Firebug Testing
- [ahal] Got mac VM working again http://getfirebug.com/testresults/?dburi=http://firebug.couchone.com/
Jetperf
- getting jetperf to post to datazilla
Marionette
- [dburns] Fixed Exception codes being returned to the client code and fixed import code
- [mdas] Created a patch for bug 761202, currently looking into bug 753490
Mobile Automation
- [ahal] Got reftests running on B2G. Still a fair amount of work to do before a patch will be ready though
Mobile Evangelism Site-Scraping Tool
- [carljm,samliu] - Got Django and Scrapy project structures set up and working together.
Mochitest
MozBase
- [henrik] MozBase check-in policy has been added: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/MozBase#Check-in_policy
Mozmill
- [henrik] Several Mozmill API fixes for user restart tests
- [henrik] Started refactoring the Python side of the Mozmill and JSBridge extensions
- [henrik] Improved logging output for Mozmill (bug 749104)
- [henrik] Fixed Mutt in reporting issues which were not visible in isolation mode
MozTrap
New Graphserver (Datazilla)
- [carljm] - made some standalone scripts into Django management commands for easier use by IT
- [carljm] - wrote tests for data ingestion
- [carljm] - lots of code review, discussion, and troubleshooting
- [jeads] - Made progress on the security review, we have a list of several action items to implement in datazilla: json sanitization, two legged OAuth 1.1, and a couple other small changes before Friday's security review.
- [jeads] - Validated t-test method with metrics using development data from datazilla.
- [jeads] - Lots of code review and discussion.
- [jeads] - Ran out of disk space on our database development VM, currently working on freeing up some more space for it.
Open Web Apps
- [dburns] working on Marionette through Chrome elements now
Peptest
- [mcote+ahal] Talked to taras about future of peptest. Need to write a single useful test that can be tracked as Firefox evolves so peppy team can figure out what they want. Taras hopes to have devs writing tests by September.
Powerball
Pulse
Sheriffing & Trees
- [edmorley] Day-to-day sheriffing of the trees.
- [edmorley] Infra/tree closure issues:
- [edmorley] Filed bugs for a number of ongoing sheriffing annoyances: https://bugzil.la/766932,766952,766084
Signal From Noise
Speedtests
Systems
Talos
- refactor of talos results reporting and output landed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755527
Tinderboxpushlog
- [edmorley] Reviewed a patch adding easy access to the clobberer & stopping people killing jobs on TBPL that shouldn't be killed without a clobber.
- [edmorley] Fixed the 'add a comment' box in Opera (for :msucan).
treestatus.mozilla.org
War on Orange
- [edmorley] Re-disabled on Android a few tests switched on by bug 761125, the rest of the 200,000+ tests seem to be holding up however \o/
Web QA
- [davehunt] pytest-mozwebqa 1.0 released
- [davehunt] BIDPOM updated with account manager page.
- [davehunt] BIDPOM is now in Travis-CI, but currently failing. :(
- [davehunt] Prototyped running Selenium tests through OWASP's Zed Attack Proxy.
- [dburns] Released Selenium 2.24
- Removes need to use ctypes for IEDriver
- Minor bug fixes
Bugzilla/Github integration
- [carljm] wrote a tool for project management to pull down basecamp/gaia bugs from bugzilla and github and combine into a single CSV file
The Overview
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Upcoming Events
Standing weekly meeting related to our projects should go here
Round Table
Take notes here and copy and paste them to this section afterwards.
Notes
Holidays and Trips
- [dburns] in SF this week. Tuesday and Wednesday at Velocity Conference
- July 2, Canadian holiday
- July 4, US holiday