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QA Staff Meeting Nov 13, 2013
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QA Org Items
QA Show and Tell
https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell
- This week:
- Web QA - skipped; will do the 27th
- Next week:
- Mobile QA
New Hires & Interviews
Upcoming Events/Conferences
Notices
- November 20th: QA Interview Skills Workshop in Warp Core - 1:30 PM
Travel / PTO
- TRIBE training:
- [nhirata] November 13-14 Tribe
- [retornam] November 13-14
- [kthiessen] Nov 13-14
- [jammink] December 10th-? Tribe
- [ashughes] PTO Nov 15 to Dec 3
- [tchung] taipei : Nov 11-15
- [Henrik] Nov 12-13, 15
- [mbrandt] PTO Dec 7th - Jan 1. Argentina, climbing a mountain (just a heads up)
- [lizzard] PTO Nov 7-8, Dec. 10 (Tribe)
Roundtable/Discussion Items
- Follow up on action item: Clint to talk to people running Interview Training to see how they are planning for remotees to be involved.
- Where are we tracking goals for Q4 and beyond? https://intranet.mozilla.org/QA/Q42013_QAgoals? This might apply to things such as community and maybe not to the individual teams?
- Quick note: Agenda format changed -- please use wiki format (stars and equals for bullets and headers)
QA Team Updates
Desktop (Juan)
- Firefox
- Firefox 25.0.1 will be released this week (maybe today) to deal with a handful of issues in NSS - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_25/Test_Plan#25.0.1
- Firefox Dev team is pushing hard to land Australis in Nightly this week and creating a fallback branch in case we want it to stay on Nightly for more than one cycle
- ESR (mwobensmith)
- ESR will also get a dot release this week - 24.1.1 and 17.1.10
- Stability (marcia)
- Platform team report: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-11-12#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29
- Automation (ashughes)
- Security (mwobensmith)
- Community
Mobile (Tony)
- Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron)
- Released Firefox 26 beta 4
- Working on Firefox 25.0.1
- Stability (kbrosnan)
- B2G (Geo/jhammink)
- [jsmith, jammink, nhirata] System FE work week last week
- [jsmith] Scoping 1.3 QA plan for Media Recording & System FE
- [jsmith] Exploratory testing gUM notification
- [jammink] burirun4 testrun being cut - we'll use 11/4 base with latest gecko/gaia
- [jammink] SIM customization exp testing, focus on factory reset
- [jammink] automating two tests for keyboard currently
- [dclarke] Added mozPay tests to CTS, starting work on Web Activities tests.
- [geo] Finishing TCP Socket client-side tests for CTS, picking up listener tests next.
- [geo] Working with performance team to better understand test process and validity (metrics team analysis of datazilla results, high-speed camera addition to Eideticker, etc.) and continue roadmapping automation priorities.
- [martijn] Fixing freezered/bitrotted patches for bugs 927196 and 913706, working on WIP patch for 871323.
- Stability (nhirata)
- Community Members Onboarding
Services (Edwin)
- Identity/Persona
- train going out next week
- FxA
- API Server
- working on load testing, exploratory, and adding integration tests
- Content Server
- working on infrastructure, waiting for more code to land
- B2G - client
- tomorrow should be a testable Try build
- ready to add gaia-ui-tests for FTU and settings
- API Server
- SimplePush
- Considering protocol changes for WhereIsMyFox app
- Community
- Met with Contributor who's interested in helping with community engagement.
- pitched the idea of QA 101
Web (Stephen)
- Affiliates
- No updates
- B2G/Gaia testing:
- Ongoing good test (and build) stability means that we have still been focussing a lot on new tests and improving existing tests' coverage rather than fighting fires for a change
- Have even completed test requests from other teams eg jwalsberg wanted messages app validation, alive wanted a keyboard test on tbpl
- Laid the smack down on some annoying Travis intermittents.
- New tests this week: TBPL browser/keyboard integration, Add everything me collection, Messages to: field validation, Messages to: field contact matching
- More tests constantly in the works, 3-4 per week
- New contributor: some guy called jammink! :-)
- Working out our phone/Jenkins-job stability this coming Friday, 11/15/2013
- Bouncer
- Successful Bouncer release on 2013-11-12
- Our test automation helped make verification of the release fairly seamless. Yay!
- Engagement Projects
- Web QA badges team had second meeting, determined first badge, taking steps to make it happen
- first being getting a "webqabadges@mozilla.com" email address for our team to use to issue
- Planning for upcoming newsletter testing
- Reps has features under test
- Web QA badges team had second meeting, determined first badge, taking steps to make it happen
- Firefox Health Report
- No updates
- Firefox Marketplace
- Weekly release [1] was shipped yesterday
- In-country payments testing is in progress
- Mozilla.com
- lots of CTA (call to action) for various shipping countries, this week + next
- Mozillians
- Thursday release: enabling CSP, fixed log out issue & search, added profile icons, and more
- MDN
- Testday this Friday, primarily to resurrect automation for the new redesign:
- Socorro
- Milestone 65 slated to release on 2013-11-13
- SUMO
- Testing new SHOWFOR changes for FF OS
- Community Members Onboarding
- New requests to join our list and participate, reached out to them and will continue to do so
Community (Marcia)
- Projects
- One and Done Project
- Notes from 11-8-13 Meeting: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/One-Done-Meeting-2013-11-08
- Working with Mauros and Mike Kelly to get started on Milestone 1: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Taskboard/Version1-Milestone1
- Current work can be seen at http://oneanddone.balwiki.com/en-US/
- Next steps: Agree on the subtree model for Milestone 1
- IT bug to get Web Ops to give us a testable dev server up: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936642
- One and Done Project
- Upcoming Events
- Grow Mozilla Meeting Thursday: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_11_14_13
- Bugmasters meeting Thurs. 9:00am PST https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugmasters/Meetings
- Community Events in Progress
- Working with Marco Castelluccio on a possible event in Naples modeled after the event we did in Turin: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QTPoNJMjAF
- Testdays (ashughes)
- Web QA MDN Automation Test Day: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/10/web-qa-mdn-automation-test-day-november-15th/
- Video Work
- No update this week
- QMO.next (Raymond)
- we'd like to swap out the plugin that powers https://quality.mozilla.org/community/ with something else; both to help with a Sandstone redesign of QMO (to match current Mozilla.org theme), as well as get rid of a potentially insecure plugin we use
- also need a DB dump to more-easily test the Persona/WordPress plugin:
- Community Members Onboarding
Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)
- General
- Henrik is in the process of moving house. He should be back online soon.
- Mozmill CI
- We've had some issues with our OS X 10.9 nodes which has caused builds to hang. Investigation is covered in bug 938073
- Ready to push updated to our production instance to hopefully help us to understand our recent OOM crashes. This is likely to happen next week due to a busy schedule for the desktop testing.
- B2G
- Last week a new version of b2gperf was released with a fix for a memory leak that caused FPS and launch times to deteriorate over time.
- Couple of silent Eideticker issues to investigate. If you have an inari and are interested, please help!
- MozTrap (Cameron)
- Community Members Onboarding
- I'd like to highlight kyr0 for his work on fixing a Marionette screenshot issue and bitgeeky for his work on allowing us to specify timeouts on the command line for Gaia UI tests.
Notes, Takeaways and Action Items
Today
- Notes
- http://www.fortunecookiemessage.com/ : "Encourage your peers."
- Cameron coming up with list of to-dos for MozTrap, will socialize around QA list.
- Next week's meeting canceled in favor of interview training.p
- Action Items
- Clint to talk to people running Interview Training to see how they are planning for remotees to be involved.
- Clint to come up with skeletal version of an A-Team style public goals page
- Marcia to come up with community goals list
Last Meeting
- Action Items
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