QA Staff Meeting January 08, 2014

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QA Org Items

QA Show and Tell

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell#Schedule Mozmill CI ondemand configuration tool called mciconf ( http://mozilla.github.io/mciconf/app/ ). For details see the automation section.

• This week:
• Next week:

New Hires & Interviews

Upcoming Events/Conferences

Notices

• Jan 5-10, Toronto, Metro Workweek, prioritization and roadmap 2014
  • https://metro.etherpad.mozilla.org/MetroWorkWeek?
  • juanb attending
• Jan 13 - 17 - Taipei, B2G QA Work Week
  • jsmith, tchung, onecyrenus, geo, mwargers, stephend, marcia, and zac attending

Travel / PTO

• [jammink] PTO, January 2-10
• [tracy] PTO, Jan. 21-23
• [camd] Work week/DashCon in SF Jan 20-24
• [nhirata] 1/11 : travelling to Mi; will be temporarily working from Mi.
• [Tony] 1/11 - 1/24 - taiwan for 2 weeks (Productivity Workweek - 2nd week)

Roundtable/Discussion Items

• Sync - Update [edwong] - https://wiki.mozilla.org/User_Services/Sync/Relaunch
  • Existing sync users will not be affected by FxA (Firefox Acconuts)
  • Users w/o sync account will be offered to sign up using FxA
  • No ability to create a "classic" sync account after 29, only FxA based accounts
  • Pushes off the working out of the migration plan into a future release

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

• Firefox
  • Fx27.0b4 out the door
• ESR (mwobensmith)
• Stability (marcia)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-01-07#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29
• Automation (ashughes)
• Security (mwobensmith)
  • TLS testing
• Community

Mobile (Tony)

• Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron)
  • Home page lists
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
  • Early Firefox Accounts work
  • Anticipating initial work for synthetic web-app APK landing very shortly this week
  • Stability (kbrosnan)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/08-Jan-2014#QA
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2014-01-06#Mobile
• B2G (Geo/jhammink)
  • Firefox OS Tablet News: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/01/mozilla-launches-contribution-program-to-help-deliver-firefox-os-to-tablets/
  • Smoketest is back to testing Mozilla Central and 1.3 builds daily
  • Dogfood 1.3 testing active - lots of regressions found - http://mzl.la/1hu5qhi
  • Platform will be determining Q1 goals this week and next week at Taipei workweek.
  • Stability (nhirata)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2014-01-06#B2G
    • LG is on older firmware, because of this, we don't get crash reports from their production device.
• Community Members Onboarding

Services (Edwin)

• FxA - Sync - landing in Fx29
  • Expecting First build to QA next week (frozen API, dev complete)
  • Currently finalizing user transition, test plan, load testing, monitoring
  • Transition plan approved today, existing sync users will have same experience in Fx29.
  • Auth-server at 90% code coverage
• Community
  • Scheduling a community call
  • Investigating CRMs to help manage contributors

Web (Stephen)

• Affiliates
  • Weekly meetings for the proposed redesign - list of Q1 priorities in place
• B2G/Gaia testing:
  • 3 new tests: find contact from dialer, go to messaging settings from messages app, play 3GP file in audio
  • davehunt is cooking up a nice new "Configuration" section for the HTML Reports:
    • (sneak peek): https://www.evernote.com/shard/s45/sh/008d41ae-8baa-4061-bcf6-eb14b00576c5/5cf1eb21064a148738eedcf3f4206c6c
  • jlal and zac enabled HTML report on Travis merges
• Bouncer
  • No releases scheduled
  • Investigating a behavior change on stage with rhelmer where tests have begun to pass unexpectedly.
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801928 - Redirect behavior on our staging env is different than what is on production
• Engagement Projects
• Firefox Health Report
  • No updates
• Firefox Marketplace
  • Marketplace weekly release went live yesterday
• Mozilla.com
  • a couple small pushes this week
• Mozillians
  • Curated groups is under test
  • Working with several new contributors from a Texas (woot, Texas!) high school that reach out to us!
• Socorro
  • Milestone 71 scheduled to ship tomorrow morning (PT) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Socorro:Releases
• SUMO
  • continuos deployment; no updates this week
• Community Members Onboarding
  • "dogweather" - http://robb.weblaws.org/about/ joined our channel recently and is using our repositories to help
  • Contributor QMO post: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/12/contributor-spotlight-jakub-jarosz/

Community (Marcia)

• Projects
  • One and Done
    • Now hosted on a development server https://oneanddone.paas.allizom.org/
    • Security Review requested by Michael Kelly https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956719
    • Accessibility Testing requested by stephend from Marco Zehe, David Bolter, Trevor Saunders, Alexander Surkov and Eitan Isaacson.
    • Show and Tell by Michael Kelly tentatively scheduled for January 22, 2014.
    • Github activity https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone/pulse
    • kthiessen will be asking for small test cases from B2G (Geo/Marcia), Fennec (Kevin), and Desktop (Juan). Send him mail if this will be difficult.
  • QA Community Champions
    • First meeting was held on December 10th - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/community-champions-20131210
      • Next meeting will happen the week of January 20th and will be focused on goal setting
  • Open Badges
    • Looking into making it possible to award the General QA Participation Badge by end of 2014 Q1.
    • Reminder: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Websites/Badges_GettingStarted#How_to_get_started_with_badges
• Upcoming Events
  • Grow Mozilla Meeting tomorrow - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_01_09_14
• Testdays (ashughes)
  • Firefox Aurora 28 Test Day: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/12/firefox-aurora-28-testday-january-10th/
• Video Work
  • No update this week.
• QMO.next (Raymond)
  • no updates this week
• Community Members Onboarding

Firefox Automation (Henrik)

• General
  • Automation Development report – week 49/50 2013: http://www.hskupin.info/2013/12/17/automation-development-report-week-4950-2013/
  • We will start collecting ideas for goals in Q1 soon. If you need something from us please let us know. Henrik will send a link to our etherpad
  • Working on new wiki pages for the team move to QA
• Projects
  • Mozmill
    • Mozmill 2.0.3 (Bug 950831), and mozmill-automation 2.0.3 released. New Mozmill environments uploaded to https://mozqa.com/mozmill-env/
    • Mozmill-CI staging is now living in SCL3 and got upgraded to Mozmill 2.0.3 before Christmas: http://mm-ci-staging.qa.scl3.mozilla.com:8080/
    • Since Jan 2nd also our production instance is running with Mozmill 2.0.3
    • Serious regression in NSPR causes intermittent hangs on startup in PR_Bind for sockets, which let jsbridge disconnect (see bug 956315)
    • A lot of new features and improvements have been landed on production: https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-ci/compare/77e01fed58e3...bf27de9419c5
  • Configuration utility for ondemand tests is up at http://mozilla.github.io/mciconf/app/ - working to get the release version running on mozqa.com. The repository can be found at https://github.com/mozilla/mciconf
• Community Members Onboarding

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

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