QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-05-28-2014
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Mozilla QA Meeting May 28, 2014
# Every Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Room: QA # # Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=nL4PESnb1IaVh # Phone: +1 650 903 0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9245 (US/INTL) # +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 9245 (US Toll Free) # +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 9245 (Canada) # IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa
Introductions
- Say hello to our interns
- Kate Glazko - kglazko (IRC)
- Working on Find my Device and Clock Visual Refresh
- Dylan Wong - dwong on IRC
- Kate Glazko - kglazko (IRC)
Actions From Last Week
- Say hello to my 2000 friends [jlorenzo]
2000 tests accounts have been created. One facebook test account has been populated with 500+ friends. Encountering some issues to go further than 535 programmatically. Adding friends manually by the dashboard is doable though.
See https://intranet.mozilla.org/QA:B2G_Facebook_test_account for credential details.
Discussion Zone
- Flames are now available for all of QA to use. Let tchung know if you would like one and how to set it up.
- Instructions to flash flames are posted at: https://intranet.mozilla.org/QA/B2G_Tips_and_Tricks#Reference_Phone_.28Flame.29
- they are also for sale at: http://www.everbuying.com/product549652.html
- Known bug. in order to get SMS to work, the workaround is to toggle airplane mode on and off until this issue is resolved:
Bug 1008557 - [Flame] Unable to send or receive SMS
QA Show and Tell
https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell#Schedule
- This week:
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sync_Perf_and_Screenshot_Demo
- Live from the QA lab [jlorenzo]
Thanks to Richard Milewski, Raymond and Stephen, a webcam is now recording 2 of our devices : https://air.mozilla.org/preliminary-test-stream/
- [jsmith] Just to want to say this is pretty damn cool
- Next week:
- Imagemagick add-on to Python Marionette for comparing screenshot images during the automation test run [njpark]
Milestones and Calls for Action
Achievements
Upcoming
- Badges working group kickoff meeting - 2:30 today in rbillings' vidyo room
Community
- One and Done
- Grow Mozilla Meeting
- QA Champions
- Next Meeting - Thursday, May 29 at 11 AM Pacific
- CBT Events working group
Contributor Welcome
These are new contributors, if you see them around, say hello
- [henrik] Kossy - Mozmill ( nice posting - https://www.kossy.co.uk/contributing-mozilla/ )
Contributor Honor Roll
For those that went above and beyond this week, we salute you here.
Updates
How To Find Us
Internal Goals
- Monthly Review: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Goals/2014q2
- In-meeting review first meeting of every month
Detailed Updates
Below follows detailed updates on what each team is working on and toward. The leads highlighted in each section are the people you want to find if you're interested in helping out.
Desktop (Juanb)
- Firefox
- ESR (mwobensmith)
- Stability (KaiRo)
- ADI issues: Nightly returning back to normal, yesterday lost some 10-20% of ADI across the board, so crash rates are somewhat higher than expected.
- Beta is still a bit higher than expected, hopefully the patches we have will help.
- Automation (ashughes)
- Security (mwobensmith)
- Compat testing for removal of 1024-bit root certs
- Shumway security review
Mobile (Tchung)
- Firefox for Android (Kbrosnan/AaronMT)
- Stability (kbrosnan)
- Firefox OS (jsmith/nhirata)
- 1.3t : smoke tests have broken 3 days in a row
- bug 1017073 : today there was no build due to two checkins; a build is being spun currently.
- still have blocker bugs that are open : 23 bugs : http://mzl.la/1p17ZJ2
- 3 noms : http://mzl.la/1wV4Z5B
- 1.4 is moving into reduced QA support - QA Wanted & smoketesting only
- 2.0 test planning & feature testing in progress
- 2.0 Flame test run active
- Latest Flame base image has most RIL-related issues resolved except SMS per bug 1008557
- 2.0 has a decent amount of flux with smoketest regressions
- Find My Device
- Beginning some preliminary testing
- Working on Test Plan and Test Cases
- Smoketest
- Updated to include an FX Account test case and an OTA test case
- Stability (nhirata)
- 1.3t : smoke tests have broken 3 days in a row
Platform (sydpolk)
Services (Edwong)
<READ ONLY>
- FxA
- train13 going out today (currently blocked on a quota limit on aws that isn't directly related to fxa)
- working on OAuth testing
- Sync
- working on monitoring
- FMD
- app server testing
- Loop
- MSISDN is v2 (not for next release)
Web (Stephend)
- Events
- We sponsored and hosted an automated testing talk, ~30 people attended - http://www.meetup.com/Durango-Coders/events/180805722/
- Affiliates
- New site successfully launched last week
- Community involvement on standing up the existing automated test suite was stellar
- Need help from the community instrumenting additional test coverage
- B2G/Gaia testing:
- Infra:
- Clint set up a separate "qalab" Wi-Fi router in the lab yesterday, which we're testing -- initial results looked promising, but today we're seeing issues. We'll continue troubleshooting, and will work with IT to get "ateam" more performant and reliable
- Johan put a night-light in the rack, in hopes we can help mitigate camera failures due to aperture problems (low-light levels)
- Johan also ran and taped-up the earbuds' cords, so we can hopefully also mitigate failures in tuning for FM stations (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000863 )
- Infra:
- Bouncer
- no updates from our side; scaling out is happening on the IT side, and our tests continue to provide coverage (both prod and staging)
- Engagement Projects
- Newsletter fix waiting to be released
- Firefox Health Report
- No updates
- Firefox Marketplace
- Weekly release was shipped on 05/27
- Input
- Will (dev) is going to town on restoring Input coverage through our Selenium tests:
- Mozilla.com
- Mozillians
- New geocoding work is landing on mozillians-dev.allizom.org. Stop in and take a look at the ongoing work
- Once stabilization of the new geocoding feature has occurred test automation will be refactored to take into account the new workflows. Until this time mozillians.dev* jobs are not being run on a cron.
- Socorro
- Renewed movement on pushing towards Chief + puppet deploys
Firefox Automation (Whimboo)
- General
- Second training day: https://quality.mozilla.org/2014/05/automation-training-day-may-28th/
- We got our first contributor (kossy) for github projects
- Projects
- Puppet
- We got started with web proxy support
- TPS
- We got our new VMs for TPS, only waiting for Mac Minis
- Ctung is helping us investigating remaining TPS test failures
- Puppet
Upcoming Events/Conferences
Travel / PTO
- [geo] PTO May 22-23, 27-28 (BayCon)
- [jsmith] Remote from NY May 27th - May 30th
- [kthiessen] PTO May 21-June 1 http://baycon.org is Memorial Day Weekend -- come join us!
- stephend on PTO May 29/30
- marcia PTO May 30
- Anthony Hughes will be in Mountain View May 26-30 for the Partner Engineering work week
- Henrik - May 29 - 30 (mostly)
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