QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-07-25-2012

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QA Staff Meeting Notes Jul-25-2012

Meeting Details

 # Every Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time - Mozilla HQ, Warp Core 
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 # Vidyo:  https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=UK1zyrd7Vhym
 # Phone:  +1 650 903 0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
 #         +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US Toll Free)
 #         +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312 (Canada)
 # IRC:    irc://irc.mozilla.org:6697/#qa

QA Org Items

• New Hires & Interviews
  • Stone Shih, B2G QA intern, will be onsite next week (not this week)
  • item
• Upcoming Events/Conferences
  • Jhammink is at a community brazil event to talk and test b2g in the field

Travel / PTO

• bmoss out next week as well as today and tomorrow
• marcia out 8/1/working remotely next week
• early warning: juanb away (aug 23 - sept 2) vacation.
• henrik: July 27th - Aug 3rd
• rbillings out 7/27
• tchung, kevin, aaron: mobile QA workweek (august 13-17)
• tchung - mid sept (paternity for a month)

QA Team Updates

Desktop (Juan)

• Firefox
  • 15.0b2: in testing phase - ships this Thur/Fri
  • See Flash pre-release version information below if you want to help.
• ESR (ashughes)
• Stability (marcia)
  • Stability Report
  • We have a pre-release version of Flash available for anyone on Windows that wants to run it. See Marcia or Juan for login information to download it.
• Automation (ashughes)
• Sync Client (Tracy)
  • No client trains last week or this. Desktop Sync Devs are working on 2.0
• App WebRT (Jason/Aaron)
  • What happened this week?
    • Webkit Alias Study for Layout Compatibility
    • Testing support as needed for Desktop/Android WebRT
  • What's next?
    • Continuing on items from last week
• Community
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Mobile (Tony)

• Issues
  • Fennec 15 beta 2 deploying this week
  • b2g feature froze last friday, dealing with backlog of missed areas
  • more devices coming in this week. i'll try to get one for everyone on the team that wants one.
  • getting involved now!
• Fennec (Kevin/Aaron)
  • Fennec 15 is in beta, with features getting uplifted each week. (tablet, Reading mode, text selection maybe)
  • Testcases being added and reviewed by dev
  • kevin is out at blackhat this week
  • Stability (nhirata)
    • See platform and mobile meetings for more info.
    • crashiness in aurora for yesterday should be resolved yesterday, data to prove that should be seen tomorrow.
• B2G (Geo/jhammink)
  • Sending out the QA strategy message to the group today
  • jhammink in South America
  • Blocked Apps:
    • email app still needs implementation
    • calendar app still shows white
    • Camera
  • browser app has some improvements (such as panning and pinch zooming)
  • nhirata, mbrandt and a bunch of other people verifying reqs and where we are at.
    • Tracking Gaia Req Review here: http://bit.ly/NYj35Y
  • Making good progress w/ the WebAPI subteam. Vibration landed, Geolocation close, Alarm and Device Storage in progress.
  • Eric Wei helping us out w/ content-based API exercises.
• Pancake (nhirata)
  • French Toast: Pancake Next Gen
  • Pancake now is doing stand up type format for meeting wiki notes
• Community Members Onboarding
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Services (jbonacci)

• Sync Server (jbonacci/jrgm): Sync Server
  • Working on TokenServer deploy and functional test with tarek
  • Working on TokenServer deploy and test in Stage with bobm, tarek, rfkelly, alexis
  • Working on Sync 1.1 with new Funkload support with atoll and rfkelly
    • Stage Sync was wiped to help with this work (thanks atoll)
  • Working on Sync 1.1 + MetLog deploy and test in Stage with rfkelly, atoll, RaFromBRC
  • Still trying to break server-full2 with live tokenserver support
  • PLANNED: AITC Dev/Stage Deployment
    • Bug 775795 - AITC dev/stage deploy: server_aitc -> 1.2-4, server_syncstorage -> 2.1-1
  • PLANNED: logstash/metlog deployment to all envs
    • Bug 775800 - logstash-metlog 0.8.3-1 deploy to aitc & sync dev / stage environments
• BrowserID (jbonacci/jrgm): BrowserID
  • THIS WEEK: The mighty mighty Train 32
    • Deploy ticket: Bug 776304 - QA and deploy BrowserID train-2012.07.20 to production
  • PLANNED: BigTent deploy to its own Stage env
• Community Members Onboarding
  • Nothing new to report
• Hiring and Training
  • Nothing new to report

Web (Stephen)

• Affiliates
  • Small release - Localize Affiliates news item (Help us out) - bug 706216
• AMO
  • 2012-07-26 is going out on 07/26
• BrowserID
  • Working on test stability with dev
• Mozillians
  • no updates
• MDN
  • Small push today (promo snippet + l10n fixes)
  • Work ongoing to switch over to the new, in-development Kumascript (editor) -- very soon
• Socorro
  • Milestone 17 scheduled to ship 2012-07-25
  • hi-risk release due to the stage env being broken - bug 771218 - specifically the crontabber work - bug 767165
• SUMO
  • Continuous Deployment; smooth sailing
• Community Members Onboarding
  • Joicey Banicheck has been helping us go through our Pivotal Tracker -- much-needed cleanup going on, there
  • Bob Silverberg wrote a post targeted at helping the group setup their dev envs
• Event tomorrow at the SF office:
  • http://www.meetup.com/seleniumsanfrancisco/events/73122342/
    • Signup is full, but employees should feel free to show up

Community (Marcia)

• Projects
  • Postcard Project
    • If you have copy, please submit it to marcia. I am still trying to get a response from John Slater to move this forward.

• Upcoming Events
  • MozCamp EU
    • Participation proposals are due July 26th
    • Jason has submitted a proposal for a talk
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/Workshop_Onboarding_New_Volunteers - proposed by David Boswell, perhaps we can leverage

• Grow Mozilla meeting
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Grow/Meeting_07_26_12

• Testdays (ashughes)

• Video Work

• QMO.next (Raymond):

• Community Members Onboarding
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Automation Development (Henrik, Dave)

General

• FlynnID 0.2
• BIDPOM drops support for Selenium RC
• Mozmill 1.5.17 released

Projects

• Working with Cameron on the API for test results submission to MozTrap
• Internal discussion about topics for MozCamp Warsaw in Sep

MozTrap (Cameron)

• TBD

Community Members Onboarding

• item

Basecamp Roundtable/Discussion Items

• Meeting notes from Monday's meeeting:
  • https://mozqa.etherpad.mozilla.org/mozappsqa-072312

Other Roundtable/Discussion Items

• B2G Testing Strategy [marcia]
  • How can we make it easier to the wider team to contribute to testing the desktop builds?
  • How can QA get phones?
• Litmus -> MozTrap [juanb]
  • Banner in Litmus to notify people to move to MozTrap bug 777395
  • Filed a bug a while bug to get link changed on nightly.mozilla.org [marcia]
• Ideas and Suggestions for the community on boarding of Syracuse University (Adi_J)
  • Scheduled conference call with the CS department chair on Friday July 27th
  • Integration of projects and modules in coursework
  • Brainstorming Etherpad
• Setting up interested new members with the right project and people
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:Community_portal (re-design)

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

Today

• Please let mbrandt or john know if you are interested in getting involved in B2G
  • Looking for help on all levels
  • Need the whole team to help with dogfooding
  • Is there way to own a core components? Yes

• Litmus->MozTrap
  • Need to Work out a transition plan from Litmus
  • Move existing Litmus test cases to MozTrap?

• Discuss whether we could use http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ to deploy QA tasks?

Last Meeting

• Action Items