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QA Staff Meeting Notes Mar 02, 2011
New Hires
- Welcome Kevin Brosnan to Mt. View
- update summary of first week: "Good."
Upcoming Test Events
- Friday, March 4, 2011: Firefox 4 Add-on Compatibility testday (Henrik)
- discussion please sign up and assist with testday moderation
- focus should revolve around top addons, also run major updates
- ask addon developers to join and help out with questions.
- Will have endurance tests ran by Dave Hunt
- Friday, March 11, 2011: Firefox 4 UNCONFIRMED Bugs bugday (Marcia)
- discussion RC will be available on friday. Talking about combining testday and bugday for Fx4
Project Status
- Overview (2 min brief update)
Desktop Firefox (Juan)
- Fx4RC: Code freeze imminent. Waiting for last issues to clear, likely today.
- QA cycle: We'll start tomorrow and use about three days to qualify. Then continue testing while we monitor crash-stats, new bugs and feedback.
- RC Plan up for review
Maintenance and Security (Al)
- Shipped Firefox 3.6.14 and 3.5.17 yesterday, March 1.
- Pwn2own, a security conference run by ZDI, is occurring from March 9 - 11. There is a significant chance of a zero day for Firefox being shown at the conference.
- Loose planning is being done for a Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 release (or just one) for the week following pwn2own depending on exposure. This would be done off of the current releases' relbranches.
- Schedule for official 3.6.15 and 3.5.18 will be determined this week as it slipped due to extended issues with 3.6.14 release.
- Lots of bugs already being fixed though.
Browser Technologies (Tony)
- Fennec (aakash)
- code freeze expected on 3/8
- blocker list is at 26
- Sync (tracy)
- 1.6.3 Shipped
- 1.7 in the next several days
- Account Portal going live Wed or Thursday
- First phase of Next Gen server in QA
- Test Pilot (tracy)
- 1.1pre5 (mostly notification work) is in QA/Dev cycle. First pass showed work needs to be done.
- Hard blocker bug for 1.1 release - bug 637335
- 1.1pre5 (mostly notification work) is in QA/Dev cycle. First pass showed work needs to be done.
- Jetpack (ayan)
- SDK 1.0b3 released yesterday.
- Flightdeck 1.0a9 maintenance release tomorrow.
- Features for 1.0a9 final release.
- Firefox Home (tony)
- Firefox 1.1.1 is likely last build to enter App store.
- Firefox Home 2.0 is the new thang. Demo is this thursday to a internal crowd. Sneak peek, click here
WebQA (Stephen)
AMO
- AMO 5.12.11 went live on 02/24
- AMO 5.12.12 is going live 03/03
FF Engagement Projects
- Firefox 4 Badges is nearly code-complete; preliminarily staged
- Crowd-sourcing is well on its way; looking to start testing early next week
- TwitterParty
- Quodis has completed dev work, QA will begin as soon as a local staging site is up, go live date is 3/15
- "Glow"
- Staging server up, not yet code complete (expect it end of week)
Input
- 3.3 Release planned for 3/15 go live
- 3.3 bugs
MDN
- ships 3/4
Mozilla.com
- Working on bugs for 1.4
Socorro
- 1.7.7 milestone release pushed back to ??? (due to an embargoe)
- 1.7.7 bugs
SUMO
- SUMO 2.6 went out on 3/1 updating all of the mobile SUMO templates
- SUMO 2.6.1 is planned for 3/8
WebQA Automation
AMO
- Discovery Pane Pages Automated
Input
- Quick mashup of Litmus tests in automation
Socorro
- Disabled 11 tests due to Schema update needed. This is a blocker for both Automation and Exploratory
QA Services (Marcia)
- Meetups/Events
- No local meetups on the radar yet. Please feel free to make suggestions.
- Tomcat at CEBIT this week
- Tchung hosting a QA meetup at the STP conference in Nashville (March 22-24)
- Crash Investigation
- Stability Report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2011-03-01#Stability_Report
- Investigating malware crashes (current top crash for B12)
- New version of flash released so also testing that and looking for crash data or issues related to the new version.
- Community Planning
- Met with William Quiviger and Pierros Papadeas re: ReMo. https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:ReMo_Summary_Plan_v1.1.pdf has the latest information.
- Marcia to work with William and Pierros to involve QA in this effort. The goal for 2011 is to recruit 500 Mozilla reps and 5000 new contributors.
- Met with William Quiviger and Pierros Papadeas re: ReMo. https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:ReMo_Summary_Plan_v1.1.pdf has the latest information.
- Accessibility:
- All blockers landed, and the Thursday nightly build will contain everything we planned for Firefox 4.
- Dealing with a regression reported to us today, bug 638106, will determine what the impact is and what the cause.
- David, Fernando (a Linux contractor for a11y) and I will be at the CSUN conference in 2 weeks. Biggest accessibility show in the U.S., down in beautiful San Diego, California.
- TCM .2
- Working on .2 release, slated arrival is at the end of this month
- Features: basic management interface
- QMO.next (Al):
- Upgrade QMO site plugins to be all current for Wordpress 3.1 update
- Documenting QMO configuration and setup for reference when the apocalypse happens
- Working on QMO 4.0 plan (finish this week)
- New Community Initiatives (ashughes)
- Newcomer Forum - please participate in the brainstorming process
- Community Manifesto - lots of great feedback so far, keep it coming
Test Automation (Henrik)
- General
- bug 637138 - Ubuntu 10.10 VM on QA-Horus broken - needs to be fixed to stop orangeness.
- We are still waiting for the VM for our shadow server (Litmus test data); at least the machine has now been ordered.
- Mozmill
- Mozmill 1.5.2 has been released and allows us to enhance our scripts
- Focused development for Mozmill 2.0; will be shared with our efforts from the shared module refactoring project
- Project updates
- On Demand Updates
- Successful demo for Matt w/ 3 VMs simultaneously
- Deploying on qa-horus for full-scale concurrency test
- Barring problems, expect to deploy for release use within a week or two.
- Endurance Tests
- New test landed: Launch new tabs in main window. bug 636080
- Blog post with screencast completed, just waiting for blog to be syndicated by Planet before publishing. Preview.
- New whiteboard entry for bugs that require an endurance tests: [mozmill-endurance] combined with [mozmill-test-needed]. Bugzilla query
- Panorama (ashughes)
- bug 636454 - Refactor tabView.open() and close() to use keyboard shortcut
- blocks all Panorama tests -- should be fixed today
- bug 629165 - Need a Box Object API for drag&drop - etherpad
- Blocks all Panoram tests which need Drag&Drop as it's incredibly unintuitive
- Will be reprioritizing work this week (wait for email)
- bug 636454 - Refactor tabView.open() and close() to use keyboard shortcut
- Shared Module Refactoring
- Now on Sprint 3
- Nearly at Milestone 1 (one small requirement under review left to go)
- Doing a quick refactoring round, as well as some alignment with Clint's A-Team goals that overlap ours.
Discussion Items
- Addons test day this Friday (Henrik)
- Community Manifesto (Anthony) - Anything we want to discuss around it so far?
- discussion (everyone) please add your comments and thoughts
- Firefox RC Testplan (Juan)
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_4RC/Test_Plan
- discussion (everyone) standby to assist and help with testing. Sign up for areas needed, review, send suggestions.
- Twitter Account (matt)
- discussion (mevans) has the credentials to it. Suggestion is to just pass around the account and have people use it respectively.
- Plans and Timing for QA workweek (needs alignment with QA Automation work week)
- discussion suggestion is to stay an extra week after the all-hands. another idea is to find a week in a future month.
- Mark Finkle's test harness addon for performance testing in Fennec (Aaron)
- discussion everyone help out here with this, if you have an android phone. it takes 5 minutes!
Takeaways and Action Items
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