Mobile/Notes/04-Sep-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-09-16

Topics for This Week

UI Test Code

The front-end team started looking into ways to improve the way we write UI (Robocop) tests. Goals include: Providing building blocks to make it easier to write tests, Find ways to improve reliability of tests and update to additional frameworks so test can be split into UI and non-UI parts. See Lucas' mailing list post for more background and ways to help.

GeckoView Status

Shane Tully and Brad Lassey have been working on patches, and landing a few. We are in a much better place and Finkle has picked up the ball a bit to propose some embedding interfaces and APIs. See the mailing list post for more details. We'd like to get more feedback before committing to the initial embedding plan.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge.

• Makoto Kato (:m_kato) filed and fixed bug 910095 - Remove unused methodjit pref
• Capella landed two more text selection fixes (and has more in the works)
  • bug 908861 - Prevent dismissal of text selection handles during drag
  • bug 907271 - Fix startSelection() processing re: new text SelectionListener()

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Sriram

• bug 862801 - Landed about:home snippets.
• bug 911830 - about:home completely blank after exiting.
• bug 898646 - Focus graphics state in history page's tabs.
• bug 907175 - Wrong tab is highlighted in tablets' editing mode.
• bug 909539 - Off-by-one error on history page in tablets.
• bug 909375 - Use website url as title, when title is not available.
• bug 906227 - Switch-to-tab in last tabs page.
• Exploring - Thumbnail animations, removing a history tab.

LucasR

Last week

• bug 910859 - Bootstrap new UI testing API
• bug 911295 - Use empty URL if entering editing mode on startup with no tabs
• (Landed) Bug 899183 - [fig] Re-implement robocop testBookmarklets.java.in
• Preliminary investigation of fig's performance impact

Next week

• Focus on fig performance
• Land more ported tests to fig
• More work on the new UI testing API based on feedback

Liuche

• Testing:
  • UI testing reorganization - meta bug 910791
  • bug 908737 - Upgrade robotium to 4.2
    • http://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/Changelog
    • more UI functionality
    • better timing/waiting
• Fig empty screen follow-up (bug 907852)
• things for 25 (bug 888982, bug 900564, bug 909938)
• bug 852608 - opensearch

Margaret

• Done
  • bug 908344 - Fix bookmark keywords
  • bug 909979 - Off-by-one error when long-clicking list items on the search suggestions screen

• In Progress
  • bug 905262 - JS API to add content to the promo banner

• Next
  • More new about:home follow-ups

Scott (jwir3)

Note: My apologies for being incommunicado for a bit. My brother was involved in a serious car accident.

Last Week:

• bug 766599: Refresh font inflation settings without page reload (and without crashing) - in review
• bug 794693: Crash fix (in review)

This Week:

• bug 878935 : Force reflow-on-zoom to only repaint when completed.