Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-12-17

Goals Progress

Below are our top level goals. Beneath each goal, note any progress made towards that goal this week.

• Ensure B2G has all test automation available to prepare for launch
  • [ON TRACK] Deploy B2G Test Automation into TBPL running on Emulator and Panda platforms. Specifically we are turning on:
    • [DONE] Mochitest-plain (emulator)
    • [SKIPPED] Mochitest-chome (emulator)
    • [DONE] Reftest (emulator)
    • [DONE] xpcshell (emulator)
    • [DONE] webAPI (emulator only
    • [ON TRACK] webQA - gaia front end tests emulator and panda
    • [ON TRACK] gaia dev integration/unit tests emulator and panda
  • [ON TRACK] Maintain B2G dog food update server as well as builds for development and QA while working to hand them off to releng
  • [ON TRACK] Ensure all webAPIs testable through the emulator have comprehensive automated tests
  • [ON TRACK] Continue to aid QA in creating automated tests for B2G
• Expand and stabilize Test Automation on new and existing device platforms for NEON and ARMv6 support.
  • [DEFER] Have APC.io (ARMv6)boards smoketest ready - rooted, working, plugged into Autophone
  • [DONE] Monitor deployment of large scale android and B2G panda board testing, aid with bug investigations
  • [ON TRACK] Implement a new pool-based approach for device management in automation to increase stability on all mobile device testing
  • [ON TRACK] Deploy Autophone (Noah's Ark) mochitest and robocop test abilities.
• Create and deploy performance automation for desktop, fennec, and B2G product benchmarks
  • [ON TRACK] Create Eideticker tests for B2G on panda boards and run them once a day
  • [ON TRACK] Monitor Datazilla webservices and ensure our accuracy in detecting performance regressions on a per-push basis
  • [ON TRACK] Deploy Datazilla per-push UI to make it easier for developers to dig into the causes of performance regressions
• Update our bugzilla instance to 4.2 providing many benefits from UI to helping people keep track of bugs/projects from within Bugzilla.
  • [DEFER] Deploy 4.2 version of Bugzilla
    • Deferred due to conflict with B2G.
  • [ON TRACK] Ensure that bug migration tools are in place for B2G so that we can share bugs with outside services and partners.
  • [ON TRACK] Complete the 'Sandstone' CSS update
  • [DEFER] Rework browserID <--> BMO integration
    • Deferred due to B2G-related distractions.
  • [ON TRACK] Deliver user and product dashboards
  • [DEFER] Deploy tracking flags extension database optimization
    • Deferred due to conflict with B2G.
• Make the process of sheriffing easier by updating TBPL and helping make it easier to handle the intermittent test problem
  • [DONE] Aid with B2G changes so that B2G oranges tracked in Orange factor, B2G tests show up in TBPL
    • [DONE] Add TBPL support for B2G emulator/Panda/Unagi/Otoro
    • [DONE] Make TBPL's log parser compatible with mozharness-style output
    • [DONE] File/track B2G intermittent failures, report issues with mozharness' error detection/reporting & unhide builds/testsuites on TBPL once they pass consistently
    • [DONE] Add the new B2G18 tree to OrangeFactor
  • [DONE] Make it easier to sheriff and diagnose issues through better notification and automatic suggestions of issues for intermittent failures
    • [DONE] Add support for more types of failures to TBPL's log parser
    • [DONE] Improve test harness & buildbot output for failures & make the output more compatible with TBPL's parser
    • [DONE] Improve TBPL's bug suggestions for failures
    • [DONE] Make TBPL's tree open/closed status update more frequently
    • [DONE] Resolve timeouts during TBPL log parsing/summary generation
    • [DONE] Simplify the 'TBPL job -> recent history for that machine' workflow
    • [DONE] Obtain BuildVPN access & investigate BuildVPN-only tools and their use to sheriffs
    • [DONE] Simplify the TBPL -> 'viewing job on the buildbot master' workflow
  • [DONE] Split mochitest browser-chrome from mochitest-other to improve parallelism and overall turnaround time.
  • [ON TRACK] Make orange factor update more than once a day to help make it easier to see changes over time
    • Patch in progress, see bug 797811.
  • [AT RISK] Assist with getting Datazilla's UI integrated with TBPL, phase 1
    • Awaiting finalised datazilla/talos output format, see: bug 816634 & bug 794901.
  • [DONE] Reduce regression windows for tree bustage by switching off unused builds/tests to reduce coalescing
  • [DONE] Reduce TBPL & OrangeFactor load on BzAPI/b.m.o, by updating use of BzAPI & transitioning to keywords rather than whiteboard annotations
  • [DONE] Fix our test-harness detection of crashes on Android
  • [DONE] Make it easier to differentiate open/resolved/test-disabled bugs on OrangeFactor, to improve prioritisation as well as finding potential backport candidates
  • [DONE] Track down intermittent-failures missing from OrangeFactor
  • [DONE] Make the tree-closure hook fail closed if treestatus is down
  • [DONE] Increase the SnR of dev.tree-management regression emails by suppressing small percentage changes & cleaning up the subject lines
• Expand and Modernize the QA Automation framework as well as make it easier and more clear how to write automated tests for QA.
  • [ON TRACK] Re-organize and improve the automated testing documentation at MDN
  • [ON TRACK] Develop first round of unit tests for WebRTC
  • [ON TRACK] Ensure all B2G device WebAPIs testable through emulators have comprehensive low level test coverage

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The Overview

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Eideticker

• [wlach] Working through various panda issues with tzimmerman and others.
• [wlach] Refactoring test manifests to use manifestdestiny so dashboard views can be more variable per device

Mobile Automation

• HOLY CRAP - PANDA BOARDS ARE RUNNING AUTOMATION ON M-C

MozTrap

• [camd] Pinned filters nearly done. One last part to implement and then I can push this week. Hopefully by Wednesday.

Sheriffing & Trees

• [edmorley] Day-to-day sheriffing of the trees.
• [edmorley] Have now switched to using sheriffing-P1, sheriffing-P2 etc keywords to instead of [sheriff-want]. Bug transition in progress.
• [edmorley] Several different cases of frustrating tree breakage (combination of coalescing plus very frequent, but yet not 100% broken failure modes) eating up multiple days combined. Eg bug 821685 and bug 821701.

Tinderboxpushlog

• [edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/818045,818464,818469,819160,819165,820388,820760,820882,821118
• [edmorley] Patches:
  • More B2G support: bug 820388
  • Bug suggestion improvements: bug 820760
  • Misc: bug 818045
• [edmorley] Moved primary TBPL development out of a user repo and into https://hg.mozilla.org/webtools/tbpl/ (bug 772546), updated docs, emailed contributors etc (dev.platform post to go out today).
• [edmorley] TBPL cron jobs got stuck again. Requesting IT assistance in resolving & started initial WIP for making the data-import script more resiliant (bug 801461).
• [edmorley] Reviewed bug 821118 & bug 820882.

War on Orange

• [edmorley] Another big push this week to persuade devs to look at oranges and disabled a bunch of tests where they have shown they aren't interested :-(

Automation Development

• [rwood] Working on test for Screen Orientation modes bug 813777
• [rwood] Added tests for multipart SMS (10 incoming/outgoing segments) bug 806811
• [rwood] Updated Mobile Connection Data tests bug 811580
• [rwood] Updated SMS number filter tests to reflect dev changes to SMS number format bug 819213
• [rwood] Dave submitted test for battery level bug 805448

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