QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-09-18-2013

Wed September 18, 2013

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QA Org Items

   QA Show and Tell

   This week: B2G and You: http://slid.es/dknite/b2g-and-you

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Show-and-Tell#Schedule

   Next week: WebQA - Krupa Raj

   New Hires & Interviews 

   Upcoming Events/Conferences 

   summit - everyone

   Notices

Travel/PTO

   [tony] - in Taiwan, Sept 23-27

   [mwobensmith] PTO 9/19-9/20, 9/23

   [dclarke] PTO 9/25-10/2

   [nhirata] PTO .. Sept 20th

   [camd] - Paternity leave watch.  She could pop at any minute!  :)

   [kbrosnan] - Toronto 16 - 20

   [marcia] Working remotely from Brussels the week of 9/30

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

   Firefox 

   24 released

   25.0b1 candidates available for testing, will ship on Thursday

   ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/25.0b1-candidates/build1/

   26.a2 will ship on Friday

   With Metro Firefox enabled (name to be revised) 

   ESR (mwobensmith) 

   17.0.9esr released

   24.0esr released

   Note that going forward, 24esr releases will drop the third digit and follow the version scheme of 24.1esr, 24.2esr etc.

   if we chemspill will that be 24.0.1 or 24.1? ie. is the second digit reserved for "planned" releases?

   We will follow same versioning as normal release, so that would be 24.0.1

   Stability (marcia) 

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-09-17#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915430 is still preventing us from running advanced queries and being able to click on the stack links

   Automation (ashughes)

   Security (mwobensmith)

   Community 

Mobile (Tony)

   Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron) 

   Fennec Workweek in toronto

   Fennec About:home testday on friday, 9/20

   https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/09/testday-dedicated-to-the-new-multi-page-abouthome-in-firefox-for-android/

   Stability (kbrosnan) 

   B2G (Geo/jhammink) 

   Stability (nhirata)

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-09-16

   https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-meeting-notes

   1.2 branched; some instabilities with crashes have occurred (see b2g-meeting-notes)

   [nhirata] learned about js integration; test creation; attempted; need to revamp

   [nhirata] created/landed patch for b2g for buri/leo/helix to only flash gaia/gecko

   [nhirata] working with Taipei team

   [nhirata] browser testing

   [nhirata] performance testing (one off) for average fps

   [jsmith] Web Notifications API, Media Recording API, getUserMedia API test plans finished & will testing ongoing on each of these areas

   [jsmith + jammink] Executed an presentation at the Oslo work week on FxOS quality

   [jsmith] Brainstormed with GFX and ateam on stability strategies - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-gfx-stability

   [jsmith] Planned SIM customization testing strategy

   [jsmith] Actively looking into SIM customization test cases for operator apps

   [jammink] as per partner's requests, starting a schedule for full testruns (in progress)

   [jammink] created new Cost Control Suite for TEF (155 cases, created suite manually)

   [jammink] some testing on Buri/supporting burirun1

   [jammink] System Front End work (mostly reading user stories), incl Messaging and VM Customization

   [jammink] Got added to System Front End, Productivity pivotals/schedules/func. teams

   [jammink] followups from Oslo Work Weeks:

   --a discussion with releng about how to make data from testruns more useful (TBD)

   --a brainstorming session about non-functional requirements we also want to measure and report (TBD)

   --a discussion with PMs, EPMs and Partners about what sort of metrics we want to get out of bugzilla and moztrap. (TBD)    

   Smoketesting [marcia]

   No longer running smoketests on the 1.1 branch

   Smoketest team has moved to the post merge build and is running again on mozilla central    

   Platform

   [Martijn] Bug 914089 - b2g.json cleanup and reorder, part 3 - checked  in, fallout from that is bug 916158 (intermittent failure)

   Comments are now back in b2g.json

   [Martijn] Bug 913706  -  Fix the tests for B2G mochitest that use   nsICookiePermission.setAccess - in b2g land, the documents need to be   reloaded after setting cookie permission, ready for review

   [Martijn] Bug 914940 -  Remove some enablePrivilige calls, patch checked in

   [Martijn] Bug 916086 -  Remove some more enablePrivilege calls, patch ready for review

   [dclarke] submitted first patch for SpecialPowers to add cert, and got review

   [geo+dclarke] Much discussion on compatibility testing and definition for CRB -- many public APIs addressed and questions raised around testing private APIs/functionality.

   Community Members Onboarding

Services (Edwin) Mark Mayo is VP of 'Cloud Services'

   Identity

   Moz idp fixed go live 6pm Thursday

   wordPress plugin release on github.

   Our tool for deploying test servers "awsbox" has had a major upgrade, and nows uses Amazon Route53 for DNS (applies to other users awsbox)

   This also begins the process of upgrading to nodejs version 0.10.18

    Picl/"new" Sync

   There are talking ongoing about just how "Persona-like" authentication will be and how to tie all this into the bigger picture that is Firefox Accounts for desktop, android, and FFos....

   QA testing continues on Auth portion of "new" Sync: IdP, Firefox-Account-Bridge (FAB), and Scrypt-Helper (SH)

   Load testing continues on Auth portion of "new" Sync: IdP and SH

   REF: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Services/SyncTestPlanV1

   Services

   Heka

   kthiessen:Working with Shane on plans for integrating Heka into Persona.

   jbonacci: Tracking v0.4 changes for "new" Sync

   Loads

   jbonacci: Continuing work with Ryan and EU team on changes needed to Loads and Loads.js for "new" Sync

   CampaignManager - bugs logged, no testing till there's code changes

   SimplePush - edwong: logging some bugs on the server before we can start cranking up loads

   Location Services - Increasing priority on dev side, something neeed: get MozStumbler!

   Talkilla - up and coming! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Talkilla

   B2G 1.3 + Signin - coming in 24 weeks?

Web (Stephen)

   Affiliates 

   2013-09-18 completed small release to update Facebook api usage and grammar tweak

   Update use of Send Dialog to comply with Facebook October 2013 Breaking Changes - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896423

   s/zip/ZIP on edit-profile page - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691619

   B2G/Gaia testing: 

    Moved over to the B2G Gaia repo, for both master and v1-train:

   master: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/7ac57fc63a7ce282c1b2216ca3f93740acf67a8a

   v1-train: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/862b5761825e010e3cc5968c096377e1ea54bbf2

   Master builds were broken today on device, due to:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917310 - Apps install path is broken on b2g desktop for windows and mac

   Hamachi and Unagi engineering builds are broken due to size limitation (working around it, for now)

   posted in dev.gaia soliciting unused test apps we can excise from the build/flash script:

   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/1YQeZmB3P_4

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917144 is tracking this

   Requested Hamachi builds for 1.2:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917540

   Bob Silverberg and James Lal collaborated and landed a Bluetooth-settings test in the JavaScript Marionette framework:

   https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/11995

   Bouncer 

   No updates

   Engagement Projects 

   Firefox Health Report

   no updates

   Firefox Marketplace 

   http://mzl.la/16a5H4M  went out on 09/17

   Mozilla.com 

    shipped weekly release

   Mozillians 

    Milestone 2013-09-12 released yesterday -  http://mzl.la/169Laxe

   Many big improvements, more to come as we march firmly towards Summit 2013

   Week of testing announcement - http://www.secretmustache.com/2013/09/mozillians-redesign.html

   MDN 

   Socorro 

   Milestone 60 slated to release 2013-09-19 - http://mzl.la/1dpg6sK

   Stage going down for a few after after the release - dc ops needs to replace the raid battery in socorro1.stage.db.phx1, which will take stage down

   SUMO 

   Automation caught a critical regression in search, on production, immediately after the push:

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917612

   Community Members Onboarding

    TheGallery & Gareth

Community (Marcia)

    Grow Mozilla Meeting tomorrow at 10 AM Pacific

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_09_19_13

   Projects 

   Open Badges Winner Announced: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/09/mozilla-general-qa-participation-badge-design-unveiled/ 2 visual designers profiled.

   Also cross-posted on Creative Team blog https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/2013/09/18/mozilla-general-qa-participation-badge-design-unveiled/

   Upcoming Events 

   Mozilla  Summit - October 4-6, 2013

   Hotel information should be coming this week

   Everyone arriving on 10-3 will have transportation from the Airport to the hotel, and everyone leaving on 10-7 will have transportation from the Hotel to the Airport

   Signup here for technical sessions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lj_XRlLdhesi-zJOY0AWcppAqSVJvvBvGQplvaDf-MU/viewform

   Testdays (ashughes)

   Friday, September 20: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/09/testday-dedicated-to-the-new-multi-page-abouthome-in-firefox-for-android/ 

   Video Work

   No update  this week

   QMO.next (Raymond)

    no update

   Community Members Onboarding

Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

   General

   Automation Development report – week 37 2013: http://www.hskupin.info/2013/09/18/automation-development-report-week-37-2013/

   Collecting information to add an open squid proxy to qa.scl3.mozilla.com for proxy testing purposes

   Projects

   Mozmill [henrik]

   Mozmill 2.0 CI instance is running on release2.qa.mtv1.mozilla.com (aka qa-set) (bug 911993)

   IT will move 7 Mac minis from our old CI cluster to SCL3 -> 4 nodes for 10.6 up to 10.9

   Tests from the functional testrun, which use external test cases, have been moved in the remote testrun (bug 849962)

   Work has been started to get PuppetAgain used for our Mozmill CI infrastructure (bug 828557)

   Mozmill 2.0rc6 will be most likely released tomorrow

   Gaia [dave]

   gaia-ui-tests has been moved into the main gaia repository

   MozTrap (Cameron)

   Community Members Onboarding 

Roundtable/Discussion Items

   Can we dogfood ZTE Open phones for 1.2 [tchung to follow up from last meeting]

   Rethinking Aurora?

   [marcia] No jobs listed for QA on Mozilla careers page?

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

   Today 

   Notes

   Action Items

   Last Meeting 

   Action Items