QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-12-19-2012

December 19, 2012

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QA Org Items

   New Hires & Interviews 

   Upcoming Events/Conferences 

   [jammink] Jan 31, future of web conference, somewhere in SF

   B2G Workweek in Berlin - Jan 7-11 (Tony, Naoki, Jason, Bob in attendance)

   Notices

Travel / PTO

   [jsmith] PTO 12/20 - 1/2

   [henrik] PTO 12/21 - 1/1

   [jsmith, nhirata, tchung, bmoss] B2G Work Week 1/7 - 1/11

   [nhirata] working from France : 1/14 ~ 1/18

   [aaronmt] PTO 1/2 - 1/4

   [jrgm] PTO 12/26 - 12/28 (plus Christmas of course)

   [juanb] PTO xmass and new year's, online in between

   [ashughes] Only taking stat holidays (dec 25, dec 26, jan 1)

   [mbrandt] PTO 12/20 - 01/06

   [tony] PTO 12/26 - 12/29

   [dclarke] PTO 12/26 - 12/28  & 1/2

   [marcia] Working remotely 12/26 - 1/1

QA Team Updates Desktop (Juan)

   Firefox 

   Fx18b5 ships this week.

   ESR (ashughes) 

   Next esr10 and esr17 going to build Thursday January 3rd, releasing Tuesday January 8th

   Stability (marcia) 

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2012-12-18#Stability_Report_.5BWeekly.5D - Weeklyl Stability Report

   CrashKill meeting will not be held on 12/26

   Automation (ashughes)

   nothing new to report at this time

   Sync Client (Tracy) 

   no client train, though rnewman has been doing a ton of triage of old bugs. Been following up there as needed.

   Community 

   [ashughes] Continuing to work with MarioMi (bug fix verifications) and KamilJ (sec-critical testing)

Mobile (Tony)

   Issues 

   Fennec 18 b5 in the works

   no testday scheduled for fx18.  will resume in January

   B2G: 12/28 target to complete first pass of testcases (Qanalyst 

   gecko QA updated hundreds of tests against b2g.json, to be ran in TBPL soon (martijn - update?)

   blockers still in the works

   Fennec (Kevin/Aaron) 

    Stability (nhirata) 

   see platform meeting notes

   Product Announcements passed testing.

   We're trying to make a mobile QA team pass, but devs pulled the testing environment out from under us.  They are working on getting a new one back up.

   B2G (Geo/jhammink) 

   Stability (nhirata)

   see platform meeting notes

   Currently running  - with QAnalysts - Firefox OS v1.0 Test Run 1 - Build: 12-17-2012 - as of this morning, about ~300/~2700 cases executed so far

   adding test app for Keyboard - will add the "keyboard" suite to test run today

   helping out with test run

   need to create a test plan for updating - called out on b2g meeting

   finishing updating/reviewing the test cases - most areas complete

   Please work on qa wanted bugs as well as bug verifications when you can

   Apps (Jason) 

   App Install test plan finished in etherpad and enough in MozTrap - signed off and reviewed

   App Perms + settings apps test plan review+ by two developers with one minor tweak, needs MozTrap support

   App errors test plan done and in moztrap, although improvements can always help later

   App Updates test plan still on-going

   Test plan definition and execution is at risk for target date

   Community Members Onboarding

   Welcome back Parul!

   Sreenidhi is local and has expressed interest with doing b2g testing!  

Services (jrgm)

   Sync Server (jrgm) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Sync/

   A small server push is happening this evening, Tracy will be smoketesting it.

   BrowserID (jrgm) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/BrowserID

   train-2012.11.23 went into production on 12/17

   train-2012.12.07 is in stage for bigtent testing

   working on b2g mozilla accounts

   Hiring and Training 

   interviews and phone screens this week.

Web (Stephen)

   Affiliates 

   successsful release 2012-12-18 - FB app

   B2G/Gaia testing: 

   Today our very first green UI build as we finally worked our way through the mainly environmental problems that were hampering tests - for example varying internet performance, state of SIM/phone contracts and SD card contents.

   Lots of medium-low prioritity issues have been left for the community to gnaw on over the Xmas break

   Bouncer 

   no updates

   Engagement Projects 

   Firefox /new page went into A/B testing this week

   Firefox Marketplace 

   Mozilla.com 

   Mozillians 

   MDN 

   Socorro 

   Elfhack fix being released today

   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=31&product=Socorro

   SUMO 

   Community Members Onboarding

   Liran - has been helping test Affiliates and Mozillians

Community (Marcia)

   Projects 

   One and Done Project planning will resume in January. pragmatic is now back in town so we will try to get momentum going again.

   Upcoming Events 

   Talked to David Boswell at the Grow Mozilla Meeting about having some type of Community Building Summit as a separate event. 

   Testdays (ashughes)

   Dec 21: Firefox 18 Beta 5 Testday (juanb)

   https://quality.mozilla.org/2012/12/firefox-18-0-beta-5-testday-december-21st/

   https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20121221

   https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20121221

   Jan 4: Per-window Private Browsing (ioanab)

   tentative

   Video Work

   No update this week

   QMO.next (Raymond)

   Community Members Onboarding

Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

   General

   We might be able to enable the new ESX cluster this week for preliminary testing over the holidays

   A lot of broken Mozmill tests due to the landing of per window private browsing - SV is working hard to get those fixed

   We will get back to you soon regarding proposals for Mozmill tests of new features

   Successful automation testday last Friday

   Projects

   Gaia UI (Dave)

   Updated Jenkins so flash/test occurs in single job - this will allow to running on multiple devices 

   Fixed two blocker bugs

   WebAPI (Rob)

   Tests for screen orientation are in the works

   New tests for multipart SMS and updated tests for new number format

   Tests for battery level from Dave

   WebRTC

   First peer connection mochitests have been landed

   Correctly exclude Android as testing platform for WebRTC tests

   Lots of investigation for crashes raised by the mochitests (https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Alder)

   MozTrap (Cameron)

   Pushed 1.3.2 to production: Tag descriptions

   Pushed 1.3.5 to staging (production this afternoon)

   Release notes: https://moztrap.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html

   Community Members Onboarding 

Basecamp Roundtable/Discussion Items

   [jsmith] The end game for testing - status, where you can help out, etc

   [jsmith] What happens after the target date?

   [jsmith] Quality vs. Feature Prioritization

Other Roundtable/Discussion Items

   Q4 Goal Check in - https://intranet.mozilla.org/QA/Q42012_QAgoals - [marcia]

   Should this be the last QA meeting of the year? [marcia]

   Many folks are out on the 26th

   Reflecting on our successes in 2012 [marcia]

   Fennec -> highly rated in the android marketplace

   Improved relationship and visibility with RelEng, RelMan, Development; much healthier give-and-take relationship

   ashughes

   Please forward me the names of any exceptional 2012 community contributions

   Proposal to improve bug fix verification process:

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Ashughes/Verifyme_Proposal

   Please read and provide feedback, accepting feedback from QA until Jan 7, 2013

   MozTrap new feature demo!

   Update on B2G Unagi Community Phone deployment

   Please see the email sent to qa-staff earlier

   Getting clarification on Juan's question

   there is a sumo day tommorow for ask a question we are looking for as many people as possible

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

   Today 

   Notes

   There will be no QA staff meeting on 12/26. Ashley has removed the calendar entry for that day.

   Next QA meeting will be Wednesday January 2, 2013

   Action Items

   marcia to follow up on status of end to end crash reporting

   marcia to follow up on status of community phone deployment

   Last Meeting 

   Action Items 

   Talk about QMO enhancements at the first meeting we have in January - satdav

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