QA Staff Meeting December 11, 2013

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QA Org Items

QA Show and Tell

• cancelled this week *

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

• This week:
  • cancelled
• Next week:
  • cancel everything!

New Hires & Interviews

• [edwong] phone screens, got some good candidates!

Upcoming Events/Conferences

Notices

Travel / PTO

• TRIBE training:
  • [jammink] December 10th-? Tribe
  • [lizzard] Dec. 10 (Tribe)
• [kthiessen] in SF for Community Building Meetup, 11-13 Dec.
• [mbrandt] PTO Dec/Jan 2. http://secretmustache.com/2013/11/aconcagua-pre-trip.html
• [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

• (nothing)

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

• Firefox
• ESR (mwobensmith)
• Stability (marcia)
  • Desktop Report from Platform meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2013-12-10#Stability_.28kairo.2Fbsmedberg.29
    • Filed a top Mac crash that is affecting 10.6 users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948228
• Automation (ashughes)
• Security (mwobensmith)
• Community

Mobile (Tony)

• Firefox for Android (Kevin/Aaron)
  • Released 26. 27 beta 1 on deck
  • 'lists' feature
    • will allow for addtional customizations on about:home
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941312
• & frontend meeting notes: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/mobile-firefox-dev/2013-December/000446.html
  • Stability (kbrosnan)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-12-09#Mobile
• B2G (Geo/jhammink)
  • Regression testing [jammink]
    • dogfooding1.2 (in progress)
      • bugs:
        • http://mzl.la/19dGnGP
    • Burirun1.3-1 (in progress)
      • bugs:
        • http://mzl.la/1bBEIiD (all: 13)
        • http://mzl.la/1gnkWuQ (new and reopened: 11)
        • http://mzl.la/18l3lkl (resolved fixed, verified fixed since testrun began: 0)
    • automating https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938062 (Toggling WiFI Setting)
  • Smoketesting [marcia]
    • Currently running ST on three branches: 1.2, 1.3 and Mozilla Central
  • Stability (nhirata)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/2013-12-09#B2G
  • Buri has new OEM image for 1.2
  • 1.4 is beginning (Mozilla Central)
  • 1.3 stabilization (Aurora)
  • 1.2 is "finished" 1.2/Gecko 26
    • still need blockers fixed
  • See also the Gaia notes at: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes
  • Platform (geo)
    • Mochitests
      • [martijn] Patches for bug 927196, (first patches for this one) bug 871323 and bug 913706 finally checked in with no problems afterwards
      • [martijn] Patch for bug 943152 checked in (ChromePowers partly removal)
      • [dclarke] Picking up mochitest on device (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915810) Currently evaluating to figure out what does and doesn't work, then planning next steps.
      • [martijn+geo] Working on a plan for distributing work on b2g.json re-evaluations/maintenance
    • [dclarke+geo] Activities tests landed in CTS, TCP tests landing next couple of days
    • [geo] Performance team evaluating measurement methods and analysis, determining noise levels and confidence.
• Community Members Onboarding
  • Work Week occuring in SF this week

Services (Edwin)

• working on 2014 goals

• Identity/Persona
  • working on train deploy, fixing up some auto tests
• FxA
  • Development work on FxA is moving forward at a good pace. Teams are broken out as follows:
  • CLIENTS
    • FxA for FFos - FTU landing after 1.3 branch is cut.
    • FxA for Android
    • FxA for web (working on desktop compatible code)
    • FxA for desktop (sharing code with web)
  • OPs is continuing its work on the Stage environment to include 3 (or possibly 4) services:
  • SERVERS
    • FxA-Auth-Server (the IdP)
    • FxA-Scrypt-Helper (for key stretching)
    • FxA-Content-Server (static pages, flow, UX/UI)
    • Verifier (possible 4th service)
  • QA is continuing a rewrite of the Test Plan for all things FxA...
• Sync
  • Prod push was completed yesterday - this addressed some security/perf issues around nginx
    • jbonacci will be tracked/tested alongside Dev and OPs
• Heka
  • v0.4.2 is out there in the wilds: https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/releases
    • FxA will be picking this up Q4
  • v0.5.0 is in Dev right now: http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
• Loads
  • Big memory eating bug on load clients - EU team digging into this
  • Tool is still usable/workable for current FxA needs
• AddOns Registration
  • ON HOLD for PRD rework/re-review
• Community
  • 2 actively working on tests

Web (Stephen)

• Working on Q1 2014 goals
• Affiliates
  • v2.0 kick-off meeting, Chelsea sent out form to get contributor feedback on desired features, will prioritize feature list and Q1 milestones before the break
• B2G/Gaia testing:
  • Will switch over to the Mozilla-RIL builds for Hamachi:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949041 - (blocks it, I think) (not blocked, more a convenience)
  • Fighting fires this week with intermittents on Travis and Jenkins/Hamachi issues
  • Working through Wi-Fi issues (chiefly in the MV office) this week:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948193
  • Also working through GaiaDataLayer errors:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947881
  • Some really nice reporting work being done:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947145
• Added some new test coverage for wake lock, merged some existing similar tests to save time
• Bouncer
  • no new updates this week
• Engagement Projects
  • Newsletter changed Bedrock back-end, released Friday
• Firefox Marketplace
  • Weekly release went live on 12/10
• Mozilla.com
  • shipped weekly release http://mzl.la/1frPY1L
• Mozillians
  • Weekly release, including profile privacy edits, Basket integration and more, released Monday
  • IT and dev fixed stability issues for the dev instance:
• MDN
  • pushed new MDN redesign live this week
    • Enjoy! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
      • Also updated automation to match
• Reps
  • Passive/continuous reporting is under test
• Socorro
  • shipping Breakpad 69 today at 3:30pm:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=69&product=Socorro&list_id=8862004
• SUMO
  • no new updates this week
• Community Members Onboarding
  • Web QA released its first badge https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/badges/badge/Running--Web-QA-Automation
    • More info on the QMO post: https://quality.mozilla.org/2013/12/web-qa-gets-badges/
    • Does your team want badges? Here is a quick getting started guide: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Badges_getting_started

Community (Marcia/Parul)

• Projects
  • One and Done Project - Milestone 1 - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Taskboard/Version1-Milestone1
    • Please take a look at the site and provide feedback: http://oneanddone.balwiki.com/en-US/
    • Overview on development https://github.com/mozilla/oneanddone/pulse
    • Notes from last checkpoint meeting on Thursday, December 05 https://etherpad.mozilla.org/One-Done-Meeting-2013-12-05
    • Next checkpoint meeting will be Thursday, December 12 at 10:30 AM https://etherpad.mozilla.org/One-Done-Meeting-2013-12-12
• Upcoming Events
  • Community Work Week in SF - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Meetup/SF_Dec_2013
    • kthiessen and marcia participating
      • marcia leading events track - https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/2013-meetup-track-events
  • Anyone interested in planning some meetups for January? Ideas welcome.
    • We should think about hosting a QA meetup/open house after we move into the new MV space
    • Previous meetups here: http://www.meetup.com/The-Mountain-View-Mozilla-Meetup-Group/photos/15051152/ and http://www.meetup.com/The-Mountain-View-Mozilla-Meetup-Group/photos/16432142/
• QA Community Champions
  • Tiger team to ramp up community involvement efforts in QA. Team members: Clint,Marcia, Karl, Liz Henry (Anthony standing in since Liz is out at the moment), Rebecca, Aaron. Parul is involved too.
• Testdays (ashughes)
  • No Testday on the schedule for this week.
• Video Work
  • No update this week
• QMO.next (Raymond)
  • no updates this week
• Community Members Onboarding

Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

• General
  • Henrik in Berlin today and tomorrow
• Projects
  • Mozmill
    • Mozmill 2.0.2 released
    • Cannot delete workspace problem on Windows: https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-ci/issues/358
    • Jenkins is still crashing way too often due to OOM: https://github.com/mozilla/mozmill-ci/issues/314
    • Bug 947108 - Request for a staging server instance of Mozmill-CI in qa.scl3.mozilla.com via ESX (and 3 Mac mini)
• MozTrap (Cameron)
• Community Members Onboarding

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

Today

• Notes
  • FxOS B2G 1.2 Bug Bash: December 12th (Thu) from 4pm to 8pm PST in the Warp Core vidyo room. For SF attendees, I've reserved SFO 233 Alice B. Toklas for the Bug Bash.
• Action Items

Last Meeting

• Action Items

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