Notices, Highlights, Roundtable

Goals

• Goal: Improve Developer/QA ergonomics around running and debugging automation by:
  • Add debugger support to B2G testrunners
  • Improve patch review experience on bugzilla/Make bugzilla more user-centric
  • Replace graph server with Datazilla for all desktop Talos tests
  • Create a project branch view of B2G builds/tests that tracks commits per target, rather than per repo (all commits to any repo for unagi for instance) joint with releng

• Goal: Improve stability, reliability, and scalability of automation platforms by:
  • Addressing all P1 B2G automation stability issues
  • Complete native REST interface for Bugzilla
  • Complete Mochitest to Mozbase port
  • Create POC Microbenchmark suite to get feedback from developers for its usefulness
  • Reduce orange factor to 5 or lower (for the last three weeks of the quarter) by driving awareness among developers, following up with assignees, and fixing intermittent automation failures.
  • Update pulse so that its dependent (client side) libraries are current for its use in Tree Herder
  • Create a prototype and a specification for a rig to power cycle real phones. Have a vendor selected to build the rig by end of quarter.

• Goal: Build toward our future by:
  • Deploy a minimally viable TBPL replacement by end of quarter, aim to switch over mid-Q3
  • Release a mozmill 2 and work with contributor community to drive toward a 2.1
  • Automate a scrolling fps test using camera Eideticker measurements for Contacts, Email, Settings, and Message apps
  • Create and Deploy BMO user profile data for community building and education
  • Create a solid net and filter system to build a bugmaster community
  • Identify 5 things we can do to increase our infrastructure capacity by 10% through more streamlined usage and bringing new capacity online. (joint with releng)
  • Enable performance and test automation to run on Android x86 hardware, investigate Android 2.3.x support on Pandas.

Deep Dives

Mobile (1st Monday)

AutoPhone/Noah's Ark

B2G Automation

Mobile Evangelism Site-Scraping Tool

Android Automation

Tools (2nd Monday)

Bugzilla

Bughunter

GoFaster

Pulse

MozTrap

Tinderboxpushlog

• [edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/881696,881708,872713,880187,878927,881082
• [edmorley] Patches:
  • Overhauled the annotated summary generator (bug 882670) to help catch more edge cases.
  • Reworked the Chief self-deploy configs & coordinated with IT to fix the discrepancies between the stage/prod working directories and the checked in versions (bug 881696).
  • Misc: https://bugzil.la/881708
• [edmorley] Reviewed bug 712212.

War on Orange

• OrangeFactor on trunk for last 7 days: 5.92
• [edmorley,mcote] Completed the switch over to the new ES instance (bug 848834 & bug 870559).

TBPL Version 2

• [edmorley, camd] Discussions about requirements for log parser.

Performance (3rd Monday)

WebPageTest

• Working on setting it up for the networking team.
• Trying to make it replay SSL HTTPS requests in a way that is reliable and deterministic without any external networks (so we can do something about modeling an interaction with, say, facebook)

New Graphserver (Datazilla)

Signal From Noise

• Email schema and code written, with tests. Needs integration with rest of DZ
• Alert code written, with tests, fine tuning still needed. (Integration still needed)
• Simple threshold alerts written, still working on tests. (integration needed)
• Simple point-wise exception identification written, still working on tests. (integration needed)

SpeedTests

Eideticker

• Continuing along two angles - android and b2g
  • Android
    • Integrated the gecko profiler with Eideticker, but unfortunately the gecko profiler is broken on android and so it was turned off
    • Android developers aren't focused on repaint times anymore - so it's become less useful. They say what would be useful would be adding something to Eideticker to do arbitrary actions on arbitrary page - which would be extremely involved project in itself.
    • There have been regressions it has filed and we have not seen much movement on them
  • B2G
    • New b2g dashboard that we put up a week or two ago (link)
    • We haven't gotten much interest on it yet either - what do we need to do to make this a useful tool for people.

Talos

• Updating new tscroll and tsvg this week that they have been reviewed and updated by developers
  • As a side-benefit, these new tests will actually run faster than the last version of them.
• [edmorley] dromaeojs has been disabled on WinXP for unreliability (bug 879722).

General Framework Support (4th Monday)

MozBase

In-tree Automation/Harnesses

WebRTC Test Development

Process (4th Monday)

Sheriffing & Trees

• [edmorley, Tomcat] Sheriffing on-boarding \o/

Treestatus

• [edmorley] Patch for bug 882124.

Bugmasters

Holidays and Trips

Misc