Litmus:Todo

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Here's some things that Litmus needs. If you feel like taking one of these tasks on, great! Just post about your progress on this page.

Unclaimed Tasks

• Administration Interface: allow admins to edit supporting entities — products, platforms, opsyses, others? — without having to manually edit the database tables.

• Attachments: do we still have a need for attachments? We're not trying to replace Bugzilla here, and there's a pretty high potential for abuse. We might want to allow this for community proposals for changes to test cases.

• Bugzilla Bug Integration: automatically mark-up bugs numbers in comments and test steps/expected results as links to Bugzilla.

• Log File Support: Build UI for display of result logs, which will now be held in the database to facilitate comparison.

• Test result/run comparison: we need to be able to compare single test results head-to-head, and we also need to display comparisons between entire test runs. We can take a page from LXR's book and mark up the deltas in special colors to facilitate comparisons. We might also want to use some AJAX to roll-up the parts of the comparison that are the same.

• Backup/Archive/Purging of old test results: the first step here will be to determine what our data retention policy will be. Both Bob and Tracy have said that they never need to go back further than one month to compare test results, but their opinions might change if it were easier for them to do so. It might make sense to be able to tag particular test runs, e.g. test runs for releases, with a DO_NOT_PURGE flag so that they can be kept around indefinitely;

• User info: personal pages for testers where they can change their information and view personal testing stats.

Claimed Tasks

Chris Cooper

• In Progress
  • Test Runs - Design: this is the major piece that is present in Testrunner but still missing in Litmus. I will add my design to Litmus:Design#Replicate_Testrunner_Functionality, at which point I should have many smaller subtasks to add to the unclaimed task pool above. At the very least, we will need the basic add/edit/clone functionality.
  • Testcase/Subgroup/Testgroup Management
    • Zach has provided a simple Enter Test interface. I will be extending this over the next few days to perform all the management functions we need.
  • add "Search for testcase" functionality -> search by: testgroup, subgroup, product

• Completed Tasks
  • added full-text search (by summary, steps, expected results)
  • database re-architect for test runs;
  • add group listing (i.e. this testcase belongs to the following groups)
  • only display testcases that are not marked as obsolete to regular testers. Admin can see all testcases.
  • script to grab/update test cases from Testrunner
    • add Testrunner ID and version fields to Litmus tests table
  • get litmus mailing alias setup
    • we're going to tag along on the existing dev-apps-webtools@lists.mozilla.org mailing list
  • Litmus Roadmap
    • milestones + dates for version 1.0 and beyond
  • Reporting/Querying
  • New Schema
  • UI Improvement
    • bug 302688
  • Multiple comments and bug numbers per test result
  • Migration of New Firefox 1.5 BFTs from Testrunner to Litmus
  • General Litmus cleanup prior to community testing debut of Litmus
    • no results text for statistics
    • improve front page UI: login box, make results display less wide, interim logout functionality
    • comment icons à la tinderbox
  • fix the percentage system used for running tests
    • make percentages based on build ID, rather than time
    • display community coverage percentages as well as personal percentages

Zach Lipton

• In Progress
  • Web Services Interface - Design
    • Need to have a XML-RPC whatever interface to Litmus to get tests, submit results, etc...
    • Status:
      • See Litmus:Web_Services for design documents.
      • Initial spike version of Test::Litmus module (to help clients submit their results to Litmus) complete

• Completed Projects
  • The testdata filter
    • The testdata filter (in Template.pm) is in pretty bad shape and needs to get fixed. It likely opens us up to XSS attacks if we actually had a real cookie to attack. Zachlipton 11:03, 28 Jul 2005 (PDT)
  • litmusconfig.js
    • Select boxes need to be converted to pull data from litmusconfig.js rather than the clunky show/hide div approach. Zachlipton 15:47, 29 Jul 2005 (PDT)
  • Precompiled templates
  • Authentication: there is currently no authentication in Litmus. We accept the first email address the user provides when testing, use this to build a cookie, and then never let them change it (without removing the cookie, of course). We need to implement proper authentication:
    • Status: Initial version checked into CVS 1/7/06. Working on migration to allow user accounts from the previous system to be used under the new authentication system.
  • Update Documentation
    • How to checkout Litmus from CVS doc on wiki
    • Update README
    • Update INSTALL
    • Update auth information on wiki and add API description
  • User management: admin tools for working with user accounts;