QA Staff Meeting December 04, 2013

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QA Org Items

QA Show and Tell

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

• This week:
  • Services QA - postponed - James is sick today.
  • Mobile QA - Tony : Partner image flashing tool demo
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNYWE4QyHg
• Next week:
  • Web QA

New Hires & Interviews

• Web QA still working through a final round of candidates for our 2014 intern position
• Services QA has phone screens scheduled
• Nils joined desktop team

Upcoming Events/Conferences

• Desktop QA team meeting in MV Dec. 9th-13th

Notices

• [jsmith] FxOS QA Bug Bash - 12/12/2013 3pm - 8pm PST, right here in warp core (MV) Stop by, we'll have pizza!

Travel / PTO

• TRIBE training:
  • [jammink] December 10th-? Tribe
• [mbrandt] PTO Dec/Jan 2. http://secretmustache.com/2013/11/aconcagua-pre-trip.html
• [lizzard] Dec. 10 (Tribe)
• [jammink] PTO, January 2-10
• [nhirata] PTO : 1/2, 1/3
• [geo] PTO, Dec 19-20
• [jsmith] PTO, Dec 16 -20
• [kbrosnan] EST Dec 17 - 20
• [tracy] in MV Dec. 9th-13th for Desktop team meetup
  • ditto for Anthony Hughes

Roundtable/Discussion Items

• [tony] Dogfooding B2G within this team. Reply to my email (coming soon) if you want a device and SIM card

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

• Firefox
  • Fx26 to be shipped next week
    • Sign-off discussion during tomorrow's channel meeting
    • Potential chemspill. May affect schedule. Details to be communicated.
  • Nightly merge to Aurora will come from the Holly branch.
• ESR (mwobensmith)
  • 24.2.0esr next week
  • 17esr discontinued EOL
• Stability (marcia)
  • Desktop Weekly Report from Platform Meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-12-03#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29
• Automation (ashughes)
• Security (mwobensmith)
• Community
• QA Lab (?)
  • Meeting this month to discuss plans for what we will move from the QA lab and what will be kept

Mobile (Tony)

• Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron)
  • Looking to limit ARMv6 testing
  • Signed off on Firefox 26 beta 10
  • RC testing mostly completed
  • Stability (kbrosnan)
    • KitKat (4.4) crashes -- please report any crashes on Nexus 4, 5, 7 and/or 10.
      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=945825%2C945340%2C945332%2C945327
• B2G (Geo/jhammink)
  • 1.2
    • [jammink] ]dogfooding run for 1.2
      • bugs: http://mzl.la/19dGnGP(34).
      • regressions: http://mzl.la/1cXpJh6
  • 1.3
    • [jammink] testplanning ongoing for e.me; edge gestures; SIM Customization
    • [jammink] exploratory testing for same
    • [jammink] Automation test for utility tray landing (bug 938061)
    • [jammink] Automation test for Wifi started (bug 938062)
  • [dclarke] First pass at Web Activity tests for CTS landing soon
  • [geo] Debugging TCP CTS tests against Buri, landing soon
  • [geo] FxOS performance team planning w/ jgriffin from A-Team yesterday, big cross-team push on perf automation and monitoring for Q1 (Eideticker/Datazilla, esp.)
  • Stability (nhirata)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-12-02#B2G
    • ordered a TCL from Poland
    • received some devices (LG Fireweb / TCL onetouch (brazil) from SUMO)
    • got fugu device back
  • testing APZ; seeing some oddities, probably need to talk to some of the devs. Issues around orientation seem unreported.
• Community Members Onboarding

Services (Edwin)

• Mini work week in SFO this week.

• Persona
  • Train waiting for fix
• FxAccounts
  • auth-server - code coverage
  • content-server - working on test infrastructure
  • b2g - got custom build flashed - working on tests
• AddOns Registration
  • reevaluating strategy from add on dev feedback
• Where is My Fox
  • Client dev is active, getting involved soon
• Locations/Talkilla
  • Softvision contributing
• Community
  • a few volunteers emailed in.

Web (Stephen)

• Affiliates
  • Kickoff meeting this week for Affiliates 2.0
• B2G/Gaia testing:
  • We had a passing build last night (with expected failures), on mozilla-central:
    • http://qa-selenium.mv.mozilla.com:8080/view/B2G%20Hamachi/job/b2g.hamachi.mozilla-central.ui/359/
    • on 1.2, 4 (known, I believe, failures):
      • http://qa-selenium.mv.mozilla.com:8080/view/B2G%20Hamachi/job/b2g.hamachi.mozilla-b2g26_v1_2.ui/88/
  • We've potentially solved (with Fabrice's help) one of our most annoying build-flash/job-running issues
    • in our script, we weren't stopping the b2g process at the right place, and there was a race condition with how the B2G boot process pulled in/combined the webapps.json files (ping me if you want the details)
  • Quite stable week with US offline for thanksgiving and devs in Taiwan.
  • Askeing has been helping on gaia-ui from Taiwan and crossing two timezones, it helps a lot in keeping the enabled/disabled state of tests in response to each new build
  • Asked by devs (Tim Chien) to send the qa-b2g reports to dev-b2g and dev-gaia

• Engagement Projects
  • Newsletter changed its entire back-end, testing begins this week
• Firefox Marketplace
  • Krupa's out; returning the 5th
  • our automation caught an API bug, which leads to:
    • Lots of work on our automation today + rest of week
• Mozilla.com
  • shiny new Contact Us/Mozilla Spaces page:
    • http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/
  • shipped call-to-action for Firefox OS in Italy
  • lots of redirect cleanup (both dev + QA)
• Mozillians
  • Work on curated groups is moving along, testing delayed due to Staccato issues
• MDN
  • Reviewed project automation
• Socorro
  • Just shipped Socorro 68: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=68&product=Socorro&list_id=8779034
• SUMO
  • Released new SHOWFOR architecture, a big back end change
  • automation caught a regression overnight: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=946321
    • which was quickly fixed this morning
• Community Members Onboarding
  • A couple interested individuals which Rebecca has reached out to via our team mailing list

Community (Marcia)

• Projects
  • One and Done prototype site: http://oneanddone.balwiki.com/
    • Status checkpoint meeting scheduled for tomorrow Thu Dec 05, 2013
    • Notes from Last Meeting: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/One-Done-Meeting-2013-11-26
    • GitHub Overview https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone/pulse
    • Work being tracked in GitHub Issues https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone/issues
    • 25 contributors and 337 commits so far! https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone/graphs/contributors
    • Functional (Selenium) tests are maintained by the Web QA team and can be found at https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone-tests
  • Jeff Beatty indicates the Utah Coder Dojo would like to incorporate community participation in the Mozilla project as a major part of their curriculum and efforts to increase development talent within Utah. They are looking for ideas for projects - we have already suggested One and Done as one possibility. Below is more information about what they are looking for related to projects:
    • 1) Satisfying a specific project need that all of the students can collaborate and contribute to
    • 2) Developing addons for Firefox desktop/mobile.
    • 3) Teaching mobile app development using open web standards and testing them on devices optimized for web apps (i.e., on Firefox OS devices).
    • 4) Develop and maintain a community site for Mozilla Utah
• Upcoming Events
  • Community Meetup in SF - December 11-13 - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Meetup/SF_Dec_2013/Schedule
  • Bay Area Geek Girl Dinner: http://bayareagirlgeekdinners.com/bay-area-girl-geek-dinner-53-sponsored-by-mozilla/
  • FOSDEM 2014 - https://fosdem.org/2014/
• Testdays (ashughes)
  • Australis testday Friday: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/11/australis-testday-december-6th/
• Video Work
  • No update this week
• QMO.next (Raymond)
  • no updates this week
• Community Members Onboarding

Desktop Automation (Henrik, Dave)

• General
  • Henrik and the Softvision automation team transitioned back into the QA team for closer work on automation with feature owners
  • Mozmill speed improvements after upgrading Python from 2.6 to 2.7.3: http://www.hskupin.info/2013/11/29/mozmill-speed-improvements-after-upgrading-python-from-2-6-to-2-7-3/
• Projects
  • Mozmill
    • Softvision desktop automation team is taking leadership of CI duty in the next two weeks
    • Working hard to get the remaining blockers fixed for Mozmill 2.0 push to production CI
    • Mozmill automation broken for Metro because of some recent changes of the application basename to be able to use the same profile
• MozTrap (Cameron)
• Community Members Onboarding

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

Today

• Notes
• Action Items

Last Meeting

• Action Items

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