CloudServices/QA Team/Meetings/2016-03-29

Meeting details

The Cloud Services QA Team meets weekly, Tuesdays at 11am Pacific time.

List of previous meetings

• Recording

Lead / Scribe

• Lead:
• Scribe:
  • Scribe is responsible for:
    • adding the action items and takeaways to the current meeting's minutes
    • creating the agenda for the next meeting and carrying the action items and takeaways over to it
    • sending out a notice of the availability of that agenda along with the meeting invite
    • completing all of the above by the end of the week during which the meeting occurred

Discussion items

• Rotate meeting roles: agenda prep, notetaking/scribing, (optional) timekeeping. Stuart, do you want to lead all of these, or rotate?

Status updates

Announcements:

• Mark goals done in Workday for Q1.
• Intern projects? -- talk to Stuart today
• Continuing emphasis on automation
• Flakiness of existing tests -- emphasis in Q2
• A couple of new projects: Content Signing, Telemetry.
• Taipei -- automation folks going to RelEng, manual folks maybe take some self-contained projects
  • If we have such projects, they might go to taipei
• Sumo and MDN cut-over to Taipei -- Ben Sternthal's group may outsource this go a Python consulting firm instead.

Matt:

• New and different workflows!
• Stabilizing Socorro tests
• MDN -- working with Stuart (and possibly Ben) to see about QA story
• Meeting with Karl, Stuart, Rebecca about Q1 deliverables

Peter:

• Activity Streama nd Test Pilot moving along
• React and CORS headers causing problems on loads-web
• Push dashboards -- travis

Richard:

• Autopush deploy tomorrow -- how do we test this today?
• Destroy Autopush in SF last week -- new scenarios in ap-loadtester
• Crypto
• Benson at al -- cloudbees
• real load test for autopush needed soon

Chris:

• Toronto office!
• Met with Ben Hearsum -- balrog -- dockerized!
• Normandy -- automated tests running. More Dockerization with Mike Cooper.
• loop-server working on staging? plugin last week -- went out without QA?
• pull request to Richard for url checks for loop-standalone
• staging test at 4pm EDT today
• off Thursday and Friday this week
• loop-standalone prod push tomorrow

Karl:

• Huge thanks to Peter/Richard for helping while Cynthia was here
• peter was quite hospitable last week, in contrast to the usual
• sync load testing with bobm (may not get started today), but meeting w/ bob every week for rest of quarter
• re-architecting sync to avoid corruption and resizing sync clusters.
• migrating sync clusters (non-trivial) and will take up KT's brain-space
• TPS running from Jenkins (at the push of a button), but no reporting [yet]. Will report directly into Bugzilla bugs in the future. KT to talk to SPhilp.
• Talking w/ Mbrandt about one-and-done.
• Talking w/ chartjes about using one-and-done for on-boarding purposes.
• working on Telemetry stuff, but isn't strongly defined yet.
• Services-OPS having a work week in MTV. KT to talk to OPs guy about ____.
• Thom is new dev hire on sync.
• KT is travelling on Wed and sporadic Thu/Fri NEXT week (will put in calendar).

Stephen:

• NetSparker! authenticated results amo-staging vs ZAP
• latest version of Selenium -- 2.52 last week, now on current Firefox, one version of Selenium behind -- update this week
• buildmaster -- painful as an IC -- confer with Stuart about pipelines and understand the key categories of failures
• git and python classes -- making progress
• snippets moving to AWS -- WebOps hiccups -- working with Engagement - we're always watching

John Dorlus:

• This week is nuts. Closing today, jury duty on Thursday.

Goals Check-in - 1st and 3rd meetings, monthly

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Goals/2016/Q1

Project status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• High-priority/supported projects:

• Available for ownership:
  • Webmaker
  • REMO/Mozilla Reps
  • Wiki

CI updates

If you've worked on Jenkins or Selenium Grid in the last week, add the necessary info in the Wiki

Next Meeting

• Next owner / scribe:
• Next week's meeting notes: