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QA Staff Meeting Notes July 21, 2010

New Hires

Project Status

• Overview (2 min brief update)

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

• Firefox 4
  • Beta 2: Ongoing spotchecks and focus area testing (don't make me beg for help)
  • Feature area spreadsheet: high priority
    • Familiar to most people, editable by anyone, easy to maintain while feature is in flux.
    • Example for l10n and Popular Web Sites - How do we combine this?

Maintenance and Security (Al)

• Firefox 3.5.11 and 3.6.7 shipped yesterday (7/2).
• No set schedule for 3.5.12 and 3.6.8 but expecting release post-Black Hat (which is next week). Fixes are being checked in for issues right now and verification should begin.
• Security team will be in Las Vegas at Black Hat and Defcon from 7/27 to 8/1.
• No set date yet for ending 3.5.x support. Need more data.

Browser Technologies (Tony)

• Fennec 2.0 (maemo and android) is in the works, with major pieces landing around E10S + layers
  • Alpha 1 date is TBD. Bug triage in the works
  • MoQA Update here
• Frantically trying to ship FF Home 1.0.1 and Sync 1.4.2b1 today. Bugs being fixed and pushed on the fly
• Jetpack integration test completed last week, working on version 2 enhancements
• Ayan started working on crossweave automation testcases. Work items defined here.
  • Crossweave testruns recorded through brasstacks

WebQA (Stephen)

• Pushed AMO 5.11.4 on 7/13
• Shipped a new version of Input this morning
• Pushed a small change to fix some galleries in Personas
• Tomorrow we'll push the certified 1.1 release of the Plugin Directory
• Work ongoing for SUMO 2.2/1.5.6 and AMO 5.11.5 (which is scheduled to ship tomorrow)

QA Services (Marcia)

• Tomcat
  • Internet Download Manager is now blocked on Trunk (Firefox 4) per Bug bug 578443 - was causing a lot of crashes on Beta 1
  • My Community Leadership Summit Report/Recap : https://wiki.mozilla.org

/User:Tomcat:CLS

• • Munich Meetups - Summer Break during the Summer Holidays
• Team Video Status
  • Have individual teams developed ideas for their team videos? If so what topics have been created so far?
    • QA Services Team video likely will be the video footage I shot of Marco doing his Accessibility demo at the Science Fair.
• Test Days, Bugs Day and Meetups
  • Need to streamline coordinating these events. Matt indicated he would like test day and bugday topics to be coordinated through QA Services.
  • Test Day this Friday on hardware acceleration: http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2010/07/19/test-day-help-us-test-hardware-acceleration-using-grafx-bot/
  • NY Meetup scheduled for 8/5/10 - http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/. Drumbeat is also having an event on August 7 in NYC.
• Accessibility:
  • FX4: Tracking regressions from our performance enhancements which crept up when the nightlies were exposed to a more wide audience than just my testing.
  • FX3.6.x: Received some reports that OOPP causes problems with at least one of the commercial screen readers. I didn't see any trouble while testing on my end, but users found sites that do expose problems. Turning OOPP off solves the problems, so it's directly related to electrolysis. Working with the AT vendor and the electrolysis team to nail down problems.

Test Automation(Henrik)

• Goals: Finalized Q3 goals
• Summit: Great feedback from localizers and add-on authors for the crowd extension
• Web dashboard: Investigation which framework to use (django, couchapp)
• Tests: Some more fixes combined with a lot of investigation
• Tests: Started to move remote test cases to local test cases
• Tests: Mozilla Messaging is using our update tests for Thunderbird
• Mozmill: Supplied a couple of patches, i.e. don't use global add-ons
• Mozmill: 1.4.2b1 released last week

Discussion Items

• Litmus test results(Matt, Henrik)
  • Need to be more diligent regarding results vetting

• Today's meetup has been canceled (Matt)
  • Need a brainstorm/reset on local meetup

• Personal Goals (Matt)
  • personal goals are a combination of
    • team goals that you have sole responsibility for or you have a direct impact on
    • individual goals that are related to personal career growth
  • A guideline personal goals mix is 60% team related goals and 40% individual goals

• Work week sessions (Matt)
  • format for the next work week will roughly be similar to last qa work week
  • If you have a suggestion for an alternative for please email matt
  • matt will setup a wiki page for

Round Table

Takeaways and Action Items