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Meeting Details

Please see our public calendar for all upcoming events and meetings.

Our regular team meeting occurs every Thursday @ 9am Pacific

• Vidyo: WebQA (8824)
• IRC: #mozwebqa
• Notes: Archive, Template

Lead / Scribe

• Lead:
  • mbrandt
• Scribe:
  • rbillings
  • Scribe is responsible for:
    • adding the action items and takeaways to the current meeting's minutes
    • creating the agenda for the next meeting and carrying the action items and takeaways over to it
    • sending out a notice of the availability of that agenda along with the meeting invite
    • completing all of the above by the end of the week during which the meeting occurred

Action Items / Takeaways from Last Week

• Takeaways:
  • Matt to write up and send out a missive on considerations when transitioning projects
  • Team: Let Matt know if you can help review his Kuma/Intern post
• Action Items:

Discussion Items / Updates

• [davehunt] New GitHub teams
  • Teams have been created and documented
  • Reminder has been added to meeting template for start of each quarter
  • Blog post announcing new teams has been drafted (please provide feedback)
  • Once blog post is published, approved changes will be made
• [davehunt] Is there existing documentation for new contributors (staff/interns/contractors/community)?
  • [stephend] For new hires + contractors: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/New_Hires
• [davehunt] Created wiki page listing our GitHub repositories. It can be included in any wiki page by using {{:QA/Execution/Web Testing/GitHub Repositories}}
• [davehunt] Update on new Jenkins instance
  • Now uses LDAP for access control
  • Allow setting Selenium host/port via environment variables in pytest-mozwebqa
  • Allow setting --tb via environment variables in pytest
• [stephend] Mozmill -> Marionette test-conversion training
• [stephend] Reaching out to BrowserStack for a 3-month eval
• [mbrandt] Open to all QA -- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QA-tea-time

Goals Check-in - 1st and 3rd meetings, monthly

• [stephend] - quick re-review of https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2015q1#Web_QA

Propose new apprentices - 1st meeting of the quarter

This is a reminder to propose new members for our apprentices GitHub team. Proposals should be sent to the webqa-internal mailing list for review.

Testday Ideas

• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webqa-testdays

Blog Ideas

Have ideas you want to blog about, or you think would make interesting topics? Note them here! this is a template, so update here please

• I encourage us all to do posts similar to: https://blog.mozilla.org/webqa/2014/11/21/i-am-mozilla-web-qa-meet-stephen-donner/
• Posts are live (most recent first)

Lightning talk / Show 'n Tell

Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• High-priority/supported projects:
  • Marketplace / AMO
  • Mozilla.org
  • MozTrap
  • One and Done
  • Socorro
    • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/2015-q1-socorro-coverage-needs
    • tl;dr
      • focus on SuperSearch [ui smoke tests + integration tests with fake data + api testing]
      • end of Q1 spinnable aws test envs that we can inject fake data into - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1123833
      • Q1 goal - Instead of syncing stage & prod data we will send a subset of prod crashes to the stage collector https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122013#c5
  • SUMO
• Available for ownership:
  • Webmaker
  • REMO/Mozilla Reps
  • Wiki

CI Updates

If you've worked on Jenkins or Selenium Grid in the last week, add the necessary info in the Wiki

• [stephend] - Looks like 2.45.x is on the horizon: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/list

Community Update

Time off / Out-of-office

Warning: This template is no longer in use. Please directly include the Web QA PTO page instead.

PTO and other time out of office for Firefox Test Engineering

• [davehunt] - October 26 - PTO
• [davehunt] - December 12-14 - Honolulu marathon

Takeaways and Action Items

• Takeways
  • mbrandt - write up how to hand off unsupported projects
    • done, is up online, a few people reviewed it

• • davehunt: new teams have been created & documented for github, justinpotts is now on Apprentices team with write permissions

• Action Items:
  • mbrandt: contact justinpotts about his new role

• • all: please review davehunt's blog post

• • davehunt: publish said blog post

• • krupa: ping rbillings re: one and done dashboard help

• • stephend: clarify/remove mbrandt/bsilverberg goal for Q1
    • edit wiki page for goals to call out dependencies on KaiRo’s goals for metrics

• Next owner / scribe: stephend/bsilverberg
• Next week's meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Meetings/2015-01-29

Happy Thursday all

• This week's soundtrack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUEVrjSxS4
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