QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-08-28-2013

August 28, 2013


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QA Org Items

   QA Show and Tell

   This week: Aaron (AppThwack)

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell#Schedule

   Next week:

   Juan - Metro overview

   New Hires & Interviews 

   Upcoming Events/Conferences 

   Notices

Travel / PTO

   [jammink] TRIBES training, Toronto, Aug 28 - Sept 1

   [zac] PTO Aug14-Sept 2nd holiday w/some work

   [rbillings] PTO Sept 2-13 

   [tony] - work from seattle aug 29, 30, PTO, aug 28

   [tony] - PTO sept 5- 10 

   [nhirata] - work from seattle aug 29, 30; Sep 7 to 14 Oslo work week

   [krupa] - working from India Sep 5-17th

   [delphine] PTO from August 26-Sep 3

   [jsmith] PTO 2nd 1/2 day on August 30th

   [ashughes] PTO August 30 - Sept 2

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

   Firefox 

   24 Beta 6 shipped yesterday

   testing bug 908134 for use of beta10 as rc1

   ESR (mwobensmith) 

   Ongoing verification of sec bugs - ESR and all branches

   Stability (marcia) 

   Report from Platform meeting - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-08-27#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29

   Interesting note about releasing the release candidate to the beta audience to try to catch crashes such as the AMD one that affect FF 23

   Automation (ashughes)

    Beta/Release en-US, de, fr, and it candidates now get run "automagically" via pulse

   Security (mwobensmith)

   CSP, avalanche of sec bugs

   IPv6 SSL exception handling

   Community 

Mobile (Tony)

   Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron) 

   24 Beta 6 shipped last night

   Continuing to focus on new about:home and WebRTC network testing

   Nightly updates disabled - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910378

   Product announcements disabled - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910410

   Stability (kbrosnan) 

   see Crashkill notes https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-08-26#Mobile

   B2G (Geo/jhammink) 

   Tony at NFC Workweek this week.  1.2 is only defining the NFC API, but no UX work.   Test coverage will include developing a webapp that tests the apis (walter)

   Tony/Naoki in seattle on thurs, fri to meet up with qanalysts

   Geo unexpectedly local, but attending Performance workweek remotely so limited availability

   1.2 Testing device continues to be the Buri phone, with only JB features covered on Nexus 4 (ie. NFC)

   Stability (nhirata)

   see Crashkill notes https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-08-26#B2G

   Inari: need symbols and revs for ebay builds

   duplicate report investigation

   Buri flashing ?  Is it fixed or not?

   Nexus 4 : figuring out how to flash

   Flashing on Helix successful building from scratch; from releng build not so much.

   [jsmith] 1.2 Media Recording API & Web Notifications API testing underway with planning, automation, and exploratory testing

   Browser Testing:

   search engine : custom bookmarks/engine implemented

   database needed to be changed some

   fix for blank search engines should be fixed now with today's respin on unagi

   Smoketest [marcia]

   Some regressions this week on 1.2 including camera

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909746

   Still being bit by gralloc crashes and GFX issues during testing

   Cannot update on unagi at the moment on 1.1 so builds are not being promoted. 

   1.1 smoketests will continue on Leo for the foreseeable future

    Platform [geo]

   [mwargers] bug  907995  - b2g.json cleanup and  reorder, part 2,  patch   ready for  review. This removes the xbl/xul test files from the   exclude  list,  because workaround to get XBL/XUL working is fixed.

   [mwargers] Bug 909012 - Add 'remove' option to pushPermissions, patch ready for review

   [geo+dclarke] Draft geolocation and fm radio tests added to compat. test suite. Device Storage being finalized, currently in a tech debt round to check for and remove closure leaks, clean up global namespace.

   Community Members Onboarding

Services (Edwin)

   Identity

   jrgm - shipping train-2013.08.15 tomorrow (just completing testing today).

   kthiessen will be shipping a new version of Mozilla IdP which will eliminate the need to re-enter the password every 24 hours (which I'm sure folks will appreciate).

   Services

    Authentication API work is starting to stabilize finally. 

    Development work continues on a browser-based desktop auth flow. 

    Development work continues on a more-native Android auth flow. 

    QA tracking and test planning continues 

    API Test Suite and Loads testing work is in progress... 

   pdehaan continuing to test the WordPress Persona plugin and B2G persona testing.

Web (Stephen)

   Affiliates 

   Creative unicorn(s) is generating a redesign/new features proposal, targeting Summit 2013. Tracker bug to follow soon ..

   B2G/Gaia testing: 

    Lots of failures in the camera app

   Modal-dialog handling should soon be returning to us:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779284 - Implement B2G Modal dialog handling to Marionette

   Troubleshooting cell/data issues with at least one Unagi,which results in sporadic failures:

   http://qa-selenium.mv.mozilla.com:8080/view/B2G%20Unagi/job/b2g.unagi.mozril.gaia.master.ui/129/testReport/

   31 xfails on master: http://qa-selenium.mv.mozilla.com:8080/view/B2G%20Unagi/job/b2g.unagi.mozril.gaia.master.ui.xfail/87/testReport/

   Bouncer 

   Small release - robots.txt file added - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=892189

   Engagement Projects 

   Flicks released the "end voting" features, but it won't be visible until 9/1

   Newsletter is releasing with moz.org

   Firefox Health Report

   No updates

   Firefox Marketplace 

   http://cl.ly/0q0N413O0Z15  shipped on 08/27

   Mozilla.com 

    pushed weekly release

   Mozillians 

   [tracker] 2013 Summit Improvements - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902008

   MDN 

    on continuous deployment; automation is still testing and finding template bugs

   Socorro 

   Prod/Stage tests failing - http://qa-selenium.mv.mozilla.com:8080/job/socorro.prod/

    [Blocker] B2G Product is not shown - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910372

   Other important bugs to track

   B2G graph and reports are not useful - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908957

   [dev][stage] Top crasher report for B2G 24.0a1 returns a 404 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909945

   Milestone 57 slated to release today (after bug 910372 is resolved)

   bugs in this release - http://mzl.la/15h4wjF and http://mzl.la/15xJgU4

   Team is currently reviewing notes and creating todo's from the Stability workweek - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/StabilityWeek2013-Notes

   SUMO 

    automation continues to find bugs:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910149 - [browserid] Going to a @login_required view sends user to non-Persona login page

   Community Members Onboarding

    roarange is looking to update AMO's requirements.txt:

   https://github.com/mozilla/Addon-Tests/issues/624

Community (Marcia)

   Projects 

   [Open Badges] Vote for your favorite General QA Participation Badge. 

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H5M95ZN 

   Community contributed designs are showcased at  https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/08/vote-for-your-favorite-general-qa-participation-badge-design/

   Also crossposted on the Creative team's blog. https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/2013/08/27/vote-for-your-favorite-general-qa-participation-badge-design/

   Mozilla Reps have also been invited to vote. Please invite your community contributors also. 

   83 votes in first 24 hours. Voting closes Sep 15, 2013 at 5 PM PST.

   Upcoming Events 

   Mozilla Summit - October 4 - 6 - Santa Clara/Brussels/Toronto

   Travel needs to be booked no later than August 31

   Registration will close on August 31st (anyone not registered by this date, may not be able to join us.)

   Word has it that the schedule has been "locked"

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013 has all the information and a FAQ

   Still recruiting Site Hosts for all 3 Summit Location - please let marcia know if you are interested. In some cases you may be a "backup" if someone else bows out or gets the Moz flu

   If for some reason you are unable to attend (visa issues, etc), please email the Summit mailing list and let them know - summit2013@mozilla.com

   Testdays (ashughes)

   Thursday, August 29: Firefox Beta

   https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/08/firefox-24-0-beta-7-testday-august-29th/

   Friday, August 30: Firefox Metro

   https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/08/firefox-metro-test-day-announcement/

   Video Work

   No update  this week

   QMO.next (Raymond)

    no update

   Community Members Onboarding

Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

   General

   [henrik] Automation Development report - week 34 2013:

   http://www.hskupin.info/2013/08/26/automation-development-report-week-34-2013/

   Projects

   Mozmill

   [henrik] Mozmill 1.5.22 and 2.0rc5 released:

   http://www.hskupin.info/2013/08/28/mozmill-1-5-22-and-2-0rc5-released/

   Mozmill CI

   [henrik] We can now execute l10n builds for beta and release candidate builds:

   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.automation/5TGS-wMh2F8

   [henrik] We have enabled Ubuntu 13.04 nodes for mozmill-ci.

   [henrik] Ubuntu 12.10 (32/64) VMs have been removed from mozmill-ci production

   [henrik]  Our staging mozmill-ci  instance has been upgraded to the lastest  Jenkins LTS version. If no  issues can be seen we will upgrade production  by end of the week

   B2G

   [dave/rob] Landed endurance tests in gaia repo (v1-train)

   [dave] performance tests detected two recent regressions

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779284

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909129

   MozTrap (Cameron)

   Community Members Onboarding 

Roundtable/Discussion Items

   B2G : [nhirata] Flatfish? Do we need to start worrying about it yet? bug 903304

   [jsmith] Cross-team QA view and actions we should take on WebRTC audio latency (desktop + mobile)

   For information only: Mt. View Move meeting tomorrow with Lisa Gray and the architect - this is primarily concerned with our Lab Space in the new building

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

   Today 

   Notes

   Action Items

   Last Meeting 
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