EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-08-08

RoundTable

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Goals

• Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours.
• Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
• Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

Automation

• Go Faster (P1) - jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert, wlach
  • Go Faster Dashboards - harth, samliu
  • httpd.js profiling - bc
  • xpcshell tests slow on Win7 - wlach
    • Pinned most of remaining problems on slow disk i/o on Mac Minis. Potential resolutions to the problems being tracked in bug 675363 -- might be unfixable?
  • speeding up mochitest-browser-chrome - wlach
    • Looking into this, summarized initial work + findings in a post to mozilla.tools titled "Going Faster: Mochitest browser chrome test results" (unfortunately this didn't propagate to google groups for some unknown reason, so no link). Going to do some more profiling on mac and 32-bit Linux this week to see why some relative results are so slow.
  • speeding up mochitest-plain - jgriffin
    • working on chasing down more patches for slow individual mochitests: bug 670229

• Mobile Support (P1) - jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert
  • Ted got a stack for the "Fenenc goes away during talos tpan" bug.
  • matched what the mobile guys found as well.
  • But it looks like a corrupted stack.
  • Tegra Pool Automation - jhammel, ??

• Bug Hunter (P1) - bc
  • Purify is pretty fragile
    • Got some results from js tests, sent them to dmandelin
    • Working on reftests now, will send results to the layout devs
    • Waiting to see if the results are useful or not.
  • Bug Hunter UI - mcote, bc
    • Still mostly in design phase but started refactoring to support the first crashes view.

• Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1) - jhammel, harth, ctalbert
  • Release 2.0 Preview today
  • Updating documentation last week

• Crossweave 2 - jgriffin
  • Landed patch that moves the configuration file that TPS out of the tree, which prevents people from screwing up the tree's configuration accidentally.
  • Returning to make TPS command this week.

Performance

• Talos/User Responsiveness (P1) - anode, ted
  • Sent email to bz/jlebar to try to discuss the a way of transforming the amount of unresponsive period during talos into a reliable statistic.

• Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1) - anode
  • Trying to get information from addons team on how to use their new Performance API.
  • Got review of trigger script to trigger the performance tests on our side, which is our last bit of code that is ours.

• Talos/Xperf (P2) - jmaher
  • Waiting on releng to deploy tools onto slaves.
  • Dashboard for xperf on autolog is done.

• SpeedTests (P2) - mcote
  • Installing BrowserScope on flyingtanks for experimentation.

• Eideticker (P2) - mcote
  • Waiting on machine from IT.

Web Tools

• War on Orange/Auto-log (P1) - jgriffin, mcote
  • A few bug fixes. Thanks to glob for noticing someone complaining about missing data in WOO in #developers; doubt that we would have caught this bug otherwise!

• Bugzilla Improvements (P1) - dkl, glob
  • Security focus: BMO/LDAP cross-matching; hmac/bcrypt encryption
  • Bugzilla security release
  • Bugzilla have finally branched for 4.2, so we'll be starting the long road to upgrading BMO

• Regression Hunter (P1) - harth, samliu
  • Implented things to allow us to integratec with the storage system that IT is building.
  • The try interface needs a second server -- sam will work on making it so that it can run on the local box with the user's credentials.

• DXR Automation/Support {P2} - mdas
  • DXR is still pretty immature with regard to automation-readyness.
  • Working on getting it to build and writing a correct log parser etc to automate it.

• Personal Bugzilla Dashboard (P2) - harth
  • no updates

Tool Infrastructure

• SpecialPowers (P1) - jmaher, ted
  • Refactored special powers so that it can function in a stand-alone script (for harnesses that run in chrome space)
    • Enables us to bring special powers to other test harnesses and we can use one API across the tests.
  • Only one last leak stands in the way of the waitForFocus refactor which is the last big API that uses enablePrivilege.

• MozBase (P2) - jmaher, jhammel, ted
  • This is being documented with the Mozmill documentation strategy.
  • Need to break the mozbase utilties out of the "mozmill" repo, potentially. And figure out how to present them to the organization at large.

• Web UX Platform (P2) - mcote, harth
  • Finished first version of the templeton app server which will eliminate the need to cut & paste init.d scripts and nginx config. Will try it out with samliu's most recent dashboard this week.

• flyingtanks - mcote
  • Still working with catlee on getting his treestatus app working correctly (he was out last week). Partially working now (no LDAP support yet).

Misc

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