QA/Execution/Web Testing/Meetings/2016-01-14
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Contents
- 1 Meeting details
- 2 Lead / Scribe
- 3 Last week's action items
- 4 Discussion items
- 5 Goals Check-in - 1st and 3rd meetings, monthly
- 6 Upcoming Events
- 7 Blog Ideas
- 8 Lightning talks
- 9 Project status / goals for next week (keep it brief)
- 10 CI updates
- 11 Community update
- 12 Time off / Out-of-office
- 13 PTO and other time out of office for Firefox Test Engineering
- 14 Buildmaster (2-week duration)
- 15 Action items
- 16 Next Meeting
Meeting details
Please see our public calendar for all upcoming events and meetings.
Our regular team meeting occurs every Thursday @ 9am Pacific
Lead / Scribe
- Lead: Valentina
- Scribe: Dave
- Scribe is responsible for:
- adding the action items and takeaways to the current meeting's minutes
- creating the agenda for the next meeting and carrying the action items and takeaways over to it
- sending out a notice of the availability of that agenda along with the meeting invite
- completing all of the above by the end of the week during which the meeting occurred
- Scribe is responsible for:
Last week's action items
- [DONE] [davehunt] Create an issue on addons-tests to update the version of Appium we are using to 1.4
- [NEW] [kthiessen] Try to update the default version of Appium we use to 1.4.16
- [NEW] [stephend] Create an etherpad and send out a note about brainstorming ideas for Q1 goals
- [NEW] [stephend] Finalize the "year in review" blog post
- team members: please populate the etherpad at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/webqa-year-in-review-2015
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Discussion items
- [davehunt] Persona.org and related domains will be taken offline on November 30th, 2016
- This will affect any automation using BIDPOM and Persona Test User
- Does this also include restmail?
- [davehunt] I have (temporarily?) disabled pytest-timeout to investigate potential Sauce Labs or infrastructure issues
- If it turns out we no longer need this plugin, it would remove an upgrade blocker for pytest/pytest-xdist
- Please let me know if you see any jobs stalled or taking a very long time
- [davehunt] Selenium 2.49 is out - any volunteers to work on the upgrade?
- [davehunt] We can have colour in our Jenkins console output. Do we want it?
Goals Check-in - 1st and 3rd meetings, monthly
Upcoming Events
The Web QA Events page shows any upcoming meetups, test days, and other events for the team.
Blog Ideas
Have ideas you want to blog about, or you think would make interesting topics? Note them here! this is a template, so update here please
- I encourage us all to do posts similar to: https://blog.mozilla.org/webqa/2014/11/21/i-am-mozilla-web-qa-meet-stephen-donner/
- Posts are live (most recent first)
Lightning talks
- [davehunt] LinkChecker
Project status / goals for next week (keep it brief)
- High-priority/supported projects:
- Bouncer
- WinXP aurora-stub problem https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1239685
- Marketplace / AMO
- MDN
- Mozilla.org
- All Selenium based tests have been migrated to the Bedrock repository
- All Sauce Labs jobs in Jenkins for mcom-tests have been deleted
- MozTrap
- One and Done
- Socorro
- Stage and prod *should* be stable. The team has been working hard to get these envs back up to spec
- Dec '15 post-mortem of the outage http://pad.mocotoolsprod.net/p/postmortem-dec-2015-4
- SUMO
- Bouncer
- Available for ownership:
- Webmaker
- REMO/Mozilla Reps
- Wiki
CI updates
If you've worked on Jenkins or Selenium Grid in the last week, add the necessary info in the Wiki
- bug 1238977 - Squid proxy timeouts between webqa-ci1.qa.scl3.mozilla.com and saucelabs.com
Community update
Time off / Out-of-office
PTO and other time out of office for Firefox Test Engineering
- [davehunt] - October 26 - PTO
- [davehunt] - December 12-14 - Honolulu marathon
Buildmaster (2-week duration)
- Hands off to the next person at the end of the current Buildmaster's 2-week role, in the Web QA Thursday meeting
Rotation
The Web QA Buildmaster Rotation page contains the past and upcoming schedule.
These entries are in reverse chronological order.
- 2016-05-05 - 2016-05-19 - stephend
- 2016-04-21 - 2016-05-05 - mbrandt
- 2016-04-07 - 2016-04-21 - davehunt
- 2016-03-24 - 2016-04-07 - rbillings
- 2016-03-10 - 2016-03-24 - krupa
Action items
- [CARRY OVER] [kthiessen] Try to update the default version of Appium we use to 1.4.16
- [CARRY OVER] [stephend] Create an etherpad and send out a note about brainstorming ideas for Q1 goals
- [CARRY OVER] [stephend] Finalize the "year in review" blog post
- team members: please populate the etherpad at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/webqa-year-in-review-2015
- [NEW] [davehunt] Determine who owns http://restmail.net/
- [NEW] [mbrandt] Upgrade Selenium to 2.49 with help from [davehunt]
- [NEW] [davehunt] Add colours to Jenkins!
- [DONE] [bsilverberg] Swap with [stephend] for upcoming buildmaster rotation
Next Meeting
- Next owner / scribe: Matt
- Next week's meeting notes: Madalin