QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-04-27-2011

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QA Staff Meeting Notes Apr 27, 2011

Upcoming Test Events

• No testday Friday?

Project Status

• Overview (2 min brief update)

Desktop Firefox (Juan)

• Fx.Next
  • Aurora(5) -> Beta, May 17th
    • Channel switcher should be all tested a week+ before then.
  • Workspaces in development on Nightly(6); Waverley taking on that feature.

Maintenance and Security (Al)

• 3.6.17, 3.5.19, and 4.0.1 shipping tomorrow, 4/28.
  • Advertised major update from 3.6.17 to 4.0.1 on Tuesday. First advertised major update.
• 3.5.19 end of life'd after this release. In either late May or June (still debating), we will minor update 3.5.19 users to 3.6.17.
• Still discussing whether there will be a 4.0.2 at all or if everything will wait for Firefox 5.

Browser Technologies (Tony)

• Fennec (aakash)
  • 4.0.1 qa work is done, signoff will be after this meeting
  • Trying to figure out approach to channels
  • Firefox 5 is ready to go
  • Firefox 6 features are available and some are in-progress

• Automation (martijn)
  • Crowd source unit testing tool for Fennec
    • Reftests, mochitests, browser-chrome tests
    • Looking into grafxbot and test harness addons

• Sync (Tracy)
  • Services projects are adopting a weekly development cycle. Essentially this is to get tighter control of change sets as they push to m-c from s-c. Processes listed below:
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Process/MergingBetweenBranches#Merging_from_services-central_to_mozilla-central
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Process/ServerReleaseProcess

• Test pilot (tracy)
  • TP1.2.pre4 should be available to test this week. Still ironing out some issues with the change over to Fx built in notification system.
  • We are finalizing a plan to handle increasing new study load. We reviewed the release requirements yesterday. Jono is doing a cleanup of https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmrhlMowAI9CdEpHV3ZuTmRYSzhTeG5PWWJvTEZ3R2c&hl=en&authkey=CPbSjNAC#gid=0 for QA to approve. May have to bring in Waverly to get full breadth of OS and channel coverage.

• Identity (tracy)
  • We reviewed the project with Dan Mills. It looks more complex than QA initially anticipated. They are charging forward with plans to have this work a variety of ways across browsers. Test plan forth coming.

• Jetpack (ayan)
  • Flightdeck 0.9.3 release tomorrow.
  • Jetpack SDK 1.0a5 code freeze today.
  • Waiting for Selenium mouse event APIs to land.

• Firefox Home (nhirata)
  • Waiting for more planning to get done before revamp of the test plan
  • Looking into Selenium 2 for possible automation.

• Share (aaronmt)
  • Web client staging server is being worked on, tracking bug 650900
  • Tying to land chrome by may 10, there is a landing meta bug 651668 that has all dependencies for landing chrome pieces
  • Preliminary wip project testplan page now up, starting to flesh out testcases in a spreadsheet
  • Roadmap

WebQA (Stephen)

AMO

• AMO 6.0.6 went live on 04/21
• AMO 6.0.7 is scheduled to go live on 04/28

FF Engagement Projects

• Working on Markup, ships May 10th, 2011

Mozilla.com

• Working on 2.3 which ships Tuesday May 3rd, 2011

MDN

• Working on 0.9.4 which ships Thursday April 28th, 2011

Web of Wonder

• Shipped Web of Wonder 2.2 April 27th , 2011

Spark

• EOL May 31, 2011

Socorro

• Shipped 1.7.7 on April 21st, 2011
• Working on 1.7.8, slated for May 19th, 2011

SUMO

• Shipped SUMO 2.8 on Tues 4/26
• Working on SUMO 2.8.1 slated for Tues 5/1

Input

• Input 3.4 slated for May 27th, 2011
• substantial refactoring of tests in the pipeline

Community (Marcia)

• Crash Investigation
  • Stability Report - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2011-04-26#Stability_Report
  • Actively filing bugs for Trunk, Aurora, etc.

• New Community Etherpad
  • Going forward we will be using http://mozqa.sync.in/mozcommunity-110429 weekly to track work related to the community. This includes:
    • Testday and Bugdays
    • Meetups and Community Events
      • http://quality.mozilla.org/category/events/ has no events, what about the meetup event in London?
    • Community Building Initiatives

• Video Work
  • Marcia just back so she needs to follow up with Rainer re: video progress

• Accessibility (Marco):

• QMO.next (Al):
• Actively working with Ryan Snyder and WebDev to get work scheduled. Will know more next week.
• Meeting with Eric Meyer to go over badges tomorrow.

Test Automation (Henrik)

General

• Goals for Q2 / 2011 have been defined
• Currently updating the team wiki pages to reflect our Q2 initiatives

Mozmill

• Mozmill 1.5.3 has only be reviewed preliminary - another hotfix releases scheduled within the next ~2 weeks.

Project updates

Shared Module Refactoring

• Preliminary work done on window handling
• Removed 3rd party inheritance library, replaced with JS native inheritance
• Driving towards Milestone 2

Mozmill Tests for the Discovery Pane of the Addons Manager (ashughes)

• Closer work with Krupa to get the most important tests scripted in Litmus
• Waiting for Anthony to return from vacation

Endurance Tests

• Work on performance improvements for the dashboard views

On Demand Updates

• Will be walking through a re-creation of 3.6.17 beta release testing w/ stakeholders (abillings, ashughes)
• Hot issue: will have separate automation clusters, need to add cluster addressing to kickoff scripts

Events

• Henrik is in Romania next week to keep up with Waverly on Automation
• Henrik is at the London Tester Gathering meetup

Discussion Items

• Romania trip next week - matt
• Scrumpads discussion - matt
• What's up with QA Services? - matt
• pass down from directors meeting (http://mozqa.sync.in/3 (notes-mevans-11-02-17)
  • Seems to require a password?
• Contributor response emails
  • Talking with David Boswell (Wed May 11) to discuss how the contribute form has been used by other groups, what works what doesn't.
  • contribute-qa@m.c list ready, will be channeling contribute emails to that. Those of you answering mails should request to be added.

Takeaways and Action Items

Item	Owner	Due	Done?
mozilla-aurora test plan	juanb	week ending april 29
target version in feature pages and transclusion (for added visibility)	juanb	week ending april 29
Add meetup procedures to wiki page	marcia	week ending april 29
automated reply	juanb	week ending april 29