QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-10-21-2015

Firefox QA Standup - October 21st, 2015

Dial-in Information

• Wednesdays, 8:30am Pacific Time
• Telephone:
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99779 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99779 (US)
• Vidyo Room: QA
• Vidyo Guest URL
• Agenda and notes: etherpad
• Archives: wiki.mozilla.org
• Previous Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings/Firefox-QA-Staff-10-14-2015

Attendees:

Discussion Items

• [Andrei] Desktop General status - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/DesktopManualQAWeeklyStatus
  • Build sign offs - 41.0.2 (build 2), 42 Beta 7 and Beta 8
  • Dev tools bug verification on 44 - https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/DevEdition44-Bug-Verification
  • Firefox 42 Beta 7 Testday results (last Friday) - https://quality.mozilla.org/2015/10/firefox-42-0-beta-7-testday-results/
    • 25 participants, 9 bugs verified, several test cases executed
  • Main focus:
    • Build sign offs - 42 Beta 9
    • Pre-release feature sign offs - Control Center, Async Plug-in Init, Tab Visual Sound Indicator, Unified Telemetry & FHR
    • Feature testing - Add-on Signing (Fx43), Search Suggestions & Unified Autocomplete (Fx43), WebVR (Fx44)

• [Ioana] Mobile updates:
  • Sign off Fennec 41.0.2 Build 2 without major issues.
  • Sign off Fennec 42 Beta 8 without major issues.
  • Working on Nightly and Aurora to ensure the quality before shifting of the trains
  • Also bug verification, bug triage and keywords lists -> qa-wanted, regression-windowwanted

Major New Desktop Features status

• [Cornel] Windows 10
  • no updates

• [Paul] Control Center (Fx 42)
  • mostly focused on bug verification lately, the feature looks good
  • recent regression - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1216136

• [Petra] Async Plugin Init (Fx 42)
  • Last time when I checked with Aaron, the plan was to ship Async
  • There are still some open issues and a security crash bug

• [Camelia] Tab Visual Sound indicator (Fx 42) - read only
  • the feature looks good since no major issues were found and it's ready for release
  • a final check on the feature is in progress, before the sign off

• [Alexandra] Unified Telemetry & FHR (Fx 42) - read only
  • verified the optout sampling feature - https://bugzil.la/1192906 - with 41.0.2 build 2 too and everything is looking good
  • pre-release feature sign off is on track

• [Cornel] WebVR (Fx 44) - read only
  • no-go in DevEdition 44 due to bug #1184283 -- https://bugzil.la/1184283
  • received an Oculus DK2 kit yesterday.
    • tried to install the device on Windows 7 64bit - several errors were encountered during the setup process but it was properly installed.
  • started to work on a "How to" guide, for an easier install and use in the future.

Major New Mobile Features status

• [Teo] Tracking Protection and Private browsing improvements
  • No updates. The feature works as expected.

• [Ninu] Kidfox - Firefox in Restricted profiles
  • No updates. The feature works as expected.

Project Updates

• Metrics / Dashboards (KaiRo)

• Stability (KaiRo)
  • Crash signature shortening is done \o/

• EME automation + YouTube MSE automation [sydpolk]
  • We continue our effort to put firefox-media-tests (and firefox-ui-tests) into the mozilla-central tree.
  • We are also moving media jobs from pf-jenkins.qa.mtv2.mozilla.com:8080 to mozmill-ci.

• Mobile

Heads-Up

• Upcoming PTOs:
  • Kevin - Oct 9 - 31
  • KaiRo, Sylvestre, Lawrence and RyanVM visiting SoftVision Nov 9-11

• Events
  • Europe's clocks change early 25-Oct; North America's change early 1-Nov. This meeting is thus scheduled one hour earlier in Europe on 28-Oct.

Channel Status

Beta (Fx42) (Desktop - KaiRo Mobile - Ioana/Kevin)

• Probably will do a b9 for Android for the random hex crashes on x86 devices (bug 1207642)
• Will need testing around Flash in b9 because of bug 1213567 landing

Automation (whimboo)

• RelEng busted our Mozmill CI due to build migration from FTP -> S3 (no extra warning a couple of days before for preparation)
• mozdownload 1.18.1 has been released for using ftp-origin
  • Not sure yet where new builds are getting uploaded to (S3 only or also ftp-origin) - if only S3 we might have to early flip back to archive.mozilla.org
• OS X 10.11 will be available later today (all machines by tomorrow)