QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-06-09-2010

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Project Status

 

• Overview (2 min brief update)
  • Desktop Firefox (Juan)
    • 3.7a5 testing (marcia in charge)
      • We might ship it this week, Friday.
      • Need some volunteers to help with spot checks and testing
      • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.7a5/Test_Plan
    • Firefox 4 Features Testing (mevans driving, all)
      • Get in touch with your developer and FILL OUT template
        • Discussion - Please review the template and give mevans any feedback on it. 
        •  example: AddonsManagerRedesign
        • example: Html 5 Parser Testplan   
      • This is really important for Beta 1
        • Update - Have a first draft of your Fx4b1 testplan by Tuesday, June 15th
  • Maintenance and Security (Al)
    • Firefox 3.6.4 build 6 users on release channel being moved to beta channel with update today (6/9).
    • Still waiting to hear if 3.6.4 build 6 will be final release build or if build 7 will be required by existing issues.
      • Still investigating the Cnet bug and bug 562198 but these don't seem to block right now.
    • Firefox 3.5.10 is still shipping with 3.6.4 barring a zero day bug.
    • Fixes are being actively taken for Firefox 3.6.6 and 3.5.11 (3.6.5 as a number has been taken by mobile team efforts). Verification of fixes must begin soon.
      • Discussion - not much testing left, except testing the new flash plugin
  • Browser Technologies (Tony)
    • Fennec 1.1 RC shipping any day now
      • Fennec 2.0a1 targeting end of June
    • Firefox Sync 1.3.1 shipped and patched a significant migration bug
      • 91,045 add-on downloads in the last week. (Up from ~40k/week prior to 1.3)
      • 30K total, 22.5K active users in 10 days.
      • Plan to roll out full migration later this week
      • Firefox Sync Postmortem, thurs at 3:30pm
    • Test Pilot 1.0b5 deployed in AMO
      • Will be added to Fx4b1 through the feedback tools
    • Jetpack 0.5 targeted end of month. Ayan working on automating the installation by end of week
  • WebQA (Stephen)
    • Scrubbed SUMO 2.1/1.5.5 release - hoping for a successful push later this week (tomorrow?)
      • Update - issues around IT and miscommunication caused the delay
    • Pushing AMO 5.11.1 - Firefox Cup today
    • Pushing GetPersonas.com 2.7 tomorrow
      • Update - uTest found a lot of dupes, many are IT issues, but as a whole went off in the weeds and did good, fast, responsive testing. about 20 testers on hand.
  • QA Services (Marcia)
    • QA Videos
      • An international version of the QA Promo video will be shot at the Mozilla Summit. This will be the next video featured on the site.
      • Please continue working on your team videos. Remember that there is a possibility for remote team members to schedule time with Rainer when you are here in Sept. for the work week.
      • Marcia will be shooting a QA Services video at the Summit. Please see her if you are interested in helping with this effort.
    • Mozilla Summit
      • http://summit.mozilla.org/ is up if you want to follow all the action
      • We now have the list of QA individuals who have RSVP'd yes
      • Deadline for Breakout Sessions, Science Fair, and Lightning Talks is June 15. See dria's email for more information.
      • Marcia working on putting together a QA mixer that will occur sometime early in the week.
    • Conferences/Meetups
      • Tomcat at Linuxtag. We have a booth there.
      • Tony is working on a meetup Topic for July. Need to get it announced soon.
      • Tomcat and Marcia to attend the Community Leadership Summit at OSCON. Clint Talbert will also attend.
      • Marcia will likely present at BlogHer conference in August. Mozilla will have a booth there as well.
    • Accessibility (Marco)
      • Blocker bug 566103 which fixes about 5 or 6 other long-standing issues, too, has landed for Wednesday's nightly, just in time for alpha 5.
      • Also, bug 570532 has landed for this nightly build, giving some of the Firefox 4 testcases an a11y perf boost. Hopefully testing on Shaver's Tablet PC will confirm this, too.
      • We have one more perf bug, bug 541618 currently in review process which should also make a lot of things faster.
      • Firefox 3.6.4 is in good shape a11y-wise. There were no specific fixes, but OOPP works fine as it does in the Firefox 4 nightlies, too. No blocking issues from my end during the whole period.
  • Test Automation (Henrik)
    • Last Test Automation Meeting notes for more details
    • New team members: Geo Mealer
    • QALab got two Mac Pro machines for Mozmill (Daily test-runs, release testing)
    • Usage of more local Litmus data in Mozmill tests (Preparation for Mozmill test-runs on Buildbot)
    • Maintenance fixes for Jsbridge and Mozrunner
    • Results for Mozmill Add-on Testscripting Testday
    • Summit
      • Presentation (Mozmill testing + demo cloud-testing extension)
      • Science Fair (proposals)
      • International version of the promo video

Discussion Items

• Goals (matt)
  • Corporate Goals meeting Jun 22/23
  • where are we for Q2 Goals?
    • Discussion Team leads, please update your status tag next to these goals
  • what are the priorities for setting Q3 goals?
    • Update will shift focus to Fx4 across the board, and trim a lot of the infrastructure work we did in Q2

• Summit Presentations (matt)
  • Engineering Keynote (QA Overview)
    • Update Matt will do an overview, and point to the team leads to do a lightning talk on the projects
    • List your QA sessions/breakouts here
    • Will need to submit your proposals via dria's spreadsheet form
  • (breakout) Breakout session: "What does the new Add-Ons Manager UI sound like??" - Marco
  • Science Fair participation: "Come by and have your favorite web site read out to you!" - Marco

Round Table

• QMO 2 updates
  • Bug bug 570794 - Let's elaborate the text for "How Can I Help?"
  • QMO Team pages need to have links to wiki team pages
  • Discussion QMO 2.5 and 3.0 brainstorm session on Thursday, June 10th, 10am PDT. See link for idea query
• Reporting tool for Bugzilla
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Data_harvesting
  • Phase I completion tentatively set to 06/23
    • Discussion Looking for features and tools that you use for bugzilla reporting, and submit it to the wiki
• Testday Scheduling Changes
  • Discussion Fx4 is coming up, we can discuss ways to get more testday coverage on specific features that land quick and fast
  • With QMO wordpress, teams are encouraged to create their own testdays directly within QMO now (just check if there's a conflict with other pre-scheduled testdays
  • Tips: encourage prizes, send out communication through various channels even if its beyond the normal channels
• Discussion Ask your feature developer questions on testing
  • Use the form that juanb constructed, and be sure to ask testing questions directly to developers in an email or in person
  • This helps both parties really understand and look at the feature and what's needed or missing
  • See HTML5 parser testplan for example
• BFT rework - When do we need manual (Mozmill) tests? (Henrik)

Takeaways and Action Items

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