Auto-tools/Meetings/2013-04-22

Notices, Highlights, Roundtable

• Yiming's last week as an intern :-(
  • Farewell lunch in SF on Wednesday for all those who can make it.
• Mdas and AutomatedTester speaking at Gtac - watch it live streamed tomorrow at 11:30am EDT

Goals

• Goal: Improve Developer/QA ergonomics around running and debugging automation by:
  • Add debugger support to B2G testrunners
  • Improve patch review experience on bugzilla/Make bugzilla more user-centric
  • Replace graph server with Datazilla for all desktop Talos tests
  • Create a project branch view of B2G builds/tests that tracks commits per target, rather than per repo (all commits to any repo for unagi for instance) joint with releng

• Goal: Improve stability, reliability, and scalability of automation platforms by:
  • Addressing all P1 B2G automation stability issues
  • Complete native REST interface for Bugzilla
  • Complete Mochitest to Mozbase port
  • Create POC Microbenchmark suite to get feedback from developers for its usefulness
  • Reduce orange factor to 5 or lower (for the last three weeks of the quarter) by driving awareness among developers, following up with assignees, and fixing intermittent automation failures.
  • Update pulse so that its dependent (client side) libraries are current for its use in Tree Herder
  • Create a prototype and a specification for a rig to power cycle real phones. Have a vendor selected to build the rig by end of quarter.

• Goal: Build toward our future by:
  • Deploy a minimally viable TBPL replacement by end of quarter, aim to switch over mid-Q3
  • Release a mozmill 2 and work with contributor community to drive toward a 2.1
  • Automate a scrolling fps test using camera Eideticker measurements for Contacts, Email, Settings, and Message apps
    • Milestone 2 finished
  • Create and Deploy BMO user profile data for community building and education
  • Create a solid net and filter system to build a bugmaster community
  • Identify 5 things we can do to increase our infrastructure capacity by 10% through more streamlined usage and bringing new capacity online. (joint with releng)
  • Enable performance and test automation to run on Android x86 hardware, investigate Android 2.3.x support on Pandas.

Deep Dives

Mobile (1st Monday)

AutoPhone/Noah's Ark

• [bc] Landed bug 853961 - Revamp Autophone logging
• [bc] Testing bug 862508 - Autophone - should specify user when launching Fennec on Android 4.2. During testing this was responsible for a regression in throbber start times. Investigating.
• [bc] Testing bug 860750 - Autophone - Add support for multiple architectures
• [bc] Unable to publish Android x86 phone test results due to confidentiality.
• [mcote] A few security fixes in preparation for putting phonedash on an AWS server under mozilla.org.

Performance (3rd Monday)

Eideticker

• Good progress on FirefoxOS for Eideticker (as stated above, "milestone 2 finished"): http://wrla.ch/blog/2013/04/actual-useful-firefoxos-eideticker-results-at-last/
• Working on a new startup test for android which just measures page load time (as opposed to startup time to page load) -- bug 860790