Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-07-09

Goals Progress

Below are our top level goals. Beneath each goal, note any progress made towards that goal this week.

• [DONE] Extend Mobile Platform Automation for B2G and Fennec Native to extend our automation systems to work with specific phone hardware and new development boards for both products.
  • [wlach] More work on Orangutan to support older devices as well as the Galaxy Nexus (landing today).

• [DONE] Datazilla: Provide generic interfaces/web app plugability for new harnesses to reuse the same infrastructure backend

• [DONE] Datazilla: Ensure that new UI is based on extensible statistics package that can be used both by developers and the graphserver UI.

• [DONE] Signal From Noise Phase II - Make the same noise-reduction changes we made on Tp5 on all the other page-load tests and ensure all performance tests are sending raw observations to Datazilla.

• [DONE] Refactor how rapid-release tracking flags are implemented for improved performance and maintainability

• [AT RISK] Upgrade bugzilla.mozilla.org to Bugzilla version 4.2

• [DONE] Reduce android test automation instability and make it easier for the web QA and desktop QA teams to write and run automated tests.

Highlights

• [DBurns] Browser Automation spec, based on WebDriver, is due to FPWD tomorrow.
• [henrik] bug 770821: A new regression between Flash 11.3 and Mozrunner has been detected which cause Firefox to freeze when pages with Flash content get opened
• [jeads] bug 763807: The security review for datazilla is complete.

In-Depth Project Discussion

Pick one project/presenter per week who will give a detail presentation on their project.

The Overview

Progress, notes, problems, and other statuses about current projects. Add any new projects to this template!

AutoPhone/Noah's Ark

• Going to focus on getting mochitests running.
• [mcote] Created project page.

Bugzilla

• [glob] qa contact reclamation, prep work, downtime, and fixes
• [glob+dkl] bmo specific and upstream reviews
• [dkl+glob] testing of bmo/4.2, sanitisation and public announcements
• [glob+dkl] administrative functions as always

Eideticker

• [wlach] / [mcote] - Work to make dashboard update consume less disk space and fail less often
• [wlach] - Added a way to profile network activity with Eideticker, to help figure out things like why Firefox for Android seems to be slower to load web pages than Chrome (bug 758338).
• [wlach] - Allow zooming in on specific regions of interest in dashboard

Marionette

• [mdas] found cause of one regression (bug 771224), still looking for cause of bug 753490.
• [jgriffin] working on mozharness wrapper for Marionette tests on desktop Firefox

Mobile Evangelism Site-Scraping Tool

• [samliu] - fixed a number of bugs in the scraper, improved commandline UI, refactored to make better use of Scrapy's capabilities

MozBase

• [wlach] Added an option to log requests to memory in mozhttpd: https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/commit/90b72275ab491f7360f5f10640fe1379994d3957
• [jhammel] Added a script to bump versions: https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/blob/master/versionbump.py

Mozmill

• [henrik] bug 770821: A new regression between Flash 11.3 and Mozrunner has been detected which cause Firefox to freeze when pages with Flash content get opened
• [dave] Manifest files with skip/disable logic have been added to the mozmill-tests repository across branches
• [henrik] Some more fixes to have more reliable Mozmill 2.0 restart tests

New Graphserver (Datazilla)

• [jeads] Completed implementation of two-legged OAuth in datazilla. When new projects in datazilla are created an OAuth consumer key and secret are automatically created and stored in the database.
• [camd] Worked on completing unit test coverage for Pushlog data import. Found and fixed a couple bugs. Should complete today.

Open Web Apps

• [DBurns] Have end-to-end prototype with Marionette, looking to finalise framework

Talos

• adding new javascript benchmarks
• updated wiki to help decipher talos
• found developer contacts for all talos tests
• minor adjustments coming out of initial contact and review of tests
  • a11y cleanup
  • ts_places* -> tspaint_places*

Sheriffing & Trees

• [edmorley] Day-to-day sheriffing of the trees.
• [edmorley] Tracking down Google docs issue regression-ranges (were due to bug 248239).
• [edmorley] Helping mattwoodrow with dev.tree-management suite name confusion. Filed bug 770460 to improve our talos story.
• [edmorley] PTO Wed-Fri.

War on Orange

• Bug 772001: No new data since July 5.

Upcoming Events

Standing weekly meeting related to our projects should go here

Round Table

• Reminder to test your Bugzilla-powered apps with the 4.2 staging server http://globau.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/mozilla-bugzilla-4-2-upgrade-testing
  • [webui] https://bugzilla.allizom.org
  • [bzapi] https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/allizom

Next week MC

ctalbert

Misc

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