EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2012-04-30

The Overview

Mozbase

• [jhammel] adding debuggers to mozrunner

Mochitest

• [chmanchester] worked with jmaher to get marionette running .sjs files for mochitest

Bugzilla

• [glob] investigated and fixed more errors/warnings thrown by bmo
• [glob] release tracking flags update (15)
• [glob] lots of various admin tasks
• [dkl] on leave

Eideticker

• [wlach] Working on short term Eideticker requests for developers, produce managerment and qa.
• [wlach] Eideticker can how gather checkerboarding statistics using telemetry
• [wlach] Working on trying to get Eideticker to work with the Galaxy Nexus.
• [wlach] Trying to get the imgur test working and tracking down other issues
  • [chmanchester] is helping out with this effort!

Peptest

• [mcote] Landed a change to control the number of test iterations

War on Orange

• [edmorley] Sheriffed ~10 trees
• [edmorley] spoke with Ehsan and Peter about a new sheriffing schedule site
• [edmorley, mcote, jgriffin] posted on dev-planning about reducing TBPL bug spam
• [edmorley] filed long standing tbpl bugs, fixed regression bug 696297, catching up with the devs related to top oranges

Talos

• [jmaher] Reviewing talos patches

Mobile Automation

• [ted] worked on fennec build project for improving build/Makefiles. Progress is further explained by this blog post
• [jmaher] sorting out reftests/android tests (how to run them, what to fix, etc.)
• [jmaher] working on rxdroid, a way to setup and clean up tasks on a remote device
• [jmaher] trying to get reftest resolution changes and sutagent changes pushed through with releng
• [mcote] working on mobile-blockers dashboard for tracking blockers and nonblockers that are being closed in time for fennec 1.0
• [mdas] tinkering with getting b2g on pandaboards.

Marionette

• [AutomatedTester] Selenium proxy almost complete, depends on getting Marionette installed into the bin directory of Firefox automatically (without rebuilding)
  • This is now done! yay!
• [mdas] Perf test gathering and submission almost complete, waiting on bugzilla database before pushing patches
• [mdas] working on a refactor/bug fix that will fix navigate commands in b2g and an iframe bug (bug 746031)
• [jgriffin] got mochitest-plain working locally on a Samsung Galaxy S2 (See bug 749011). Need to integrate this with CI.

Web QA

• [davehunt] Released pytest-mozwebqa 0.10 which fixed Web QA test builds and allows them to use Google Chrome on Sauce Labs

Bughunter

• Updated documentation at https://intranet.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Systems/Inventory/Applications/Bughunter
• Working on support scripts and configuration for user testing.

New Graphserver (Datazilla)

• [jeads] - Set up a new VM for testing the datazilla UI. The prototype user interface can be reached on Mozilla-MPT by adding, "10.8.73.31 datazilla" to your /etc/hosts file and then directing your browser to /datazilla/views. Feel free to take a look if you're interested, any feedback is appreciated.

• [jeads] - The source code for datazilla can be found at https://github.com/jeads/datazilla. Spent some time writing documentation.

• [jeads] - Finished a memcached system for caching all test run summary data across all platforms and talos tests for 7 and 30 time periods. The new datazilla UI landing page initializes using data from the memcache without hitting the database.

Jetperf

• [jhammel] internal pypi is being set up, dealing with nginx and script problems

Pulse

• [jgriffin] Working on transition plan with IT for migration to managed hardware.

MozTrap

• [cdawson] fixed bug where test case environment settings were not being honored
• [cdawson] worked on the REST API for submitting test results
• [cdawson] sec review in progress: ETA 5/1 for feedback.
• [cdawson, rbillings] selenium tests are being worked on by Rebecca Billings

Powerball

• [AutomatedTester] Getting a reftest quest shell (base page) ready for jmaher to work on.

Round Table

• Welcome CarlJM!
• MC status gathering methods have room for improvement, this team is huge!
  • switch to each member updating the wiki by Friday, and have MC go over it/follow up on unclear highlights at EOD?
• Contributor Survey Results (ctalbert)
• Goals Review (1/3 through the quarter) - Goals

Misc

• The expansion of what four letter acronym commonly used in web programming is brought to mind by the following phrase:

"The nation gave the title of its sovereignty to a holding agency, but the exchange was purely emblematic."

(See http://k0s.org/blog/20120427093801 for the answer)

• It's a moztrap!