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General

• Attendees:
  • Mario, Andreea, Daniela, Andrei, Otilla, Rob, Dave, Joel, Clint, Adrian, Mihaela
• This meeting:
  • Chair: Mario Garbi
  • Notes: Joel Maher

Last Weeks Action Items

• [NEW] Andreea: Provide feedback on review process changes - So far, so good :-)
  • I feel we've made progress in getting the scrumbug lists done
  • Came up with a plan to not make myself lose focus from my bugs: do reviews in the morning and about 1h after lunch
• [CARRY OVER] Clint: Followup with Releng about the idea to report directly to tbpl
• [DONE] Dave: Investigate and implement binding the endurance tests to specific nodes of the CI
• [CARRY OVER] Henrik: Check mozmill or mozmill-automation so we do not fail when we can't send the report
• [DONE] Andrei: start a thread on dev-automation mailing list about improving error reporting (eg. screenshot when a test fails)
  • Started a mailing list thread, activity only from our inner circle, have a patch in bugzilla asking for feedback on taking screenshots

Highlights

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Goals Overview

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Automation_Development#Prioritized_Projects

Blockers

• The following are active blockers: http://bit.ly/Tph0NY

Issues

• bug 832510 - Merge l10n build requests for same locale
• bug 774892 - Unable to type in Firefox if it's started with focusmanager.testmode enabled on Linux
• bug 745975 - Pulse: Repack builders for Firefox candidate builds (beta/release) should send out notifications for individual locales
• bug 757122 - Pulse: Notifications for finished builds should not be send out before the builds are available for download
• bug 781129 - Pulse: Notifications for outdated builds are getting send via Pulse
• bug 777354 - Regression in shutdown time of httpd.js (~6s) when multiple local pages have been opened

Project Updates

Gaia UI (Dave)

• [davehunt] bug 838786 is blocking reliable UI test results. May be related to AbortError and timeouts also seen in recent builds. Also potentially affecting performance tests. Requires further investigation.
• [rwood] Developing GaiaUI stress/endurance tests. Finished tests for add contact, add event, take a photo, and capture video.

WebAPI (Rob)

• No updates this week

WebRTC (Henrik)

• TBD

Softvision Updates

Desktop Automation

• Got started on Marionette over Ask an Expert meeting, thanks Dave!

• Fixed:
  • bug 807931 - Test failure "Active tab url should equal the page url [..] in testAwesomeBar/testSwitchToTab.js
  • bug 826645 - Add throws() and doesNotThrow() method to the assertions module
  • bug 600291 - Update test module testSearchAddons to reflect the new Add-ons API
  • bug 828185 - Change as many as possible instances of "throw" to assert.* calls
  • bug 831297 - Test Failure "Disconnect Error: Application unexpectedly closed" in /l10n/testAccessKeys/test1.js

• Blocked bugs:
  • bug 795398 - Mozmill test to check that MD5 hash signatures are no longer accepted - blocked by bug 804952 - Setup virtual host on mozqa.com for Mozmill MD5 hash signatures check
  • bug 763159 - Test failure 'secure.mur.at == erle.mur.at ' in testSecurity/testUnknownIssuer.js

• Waiting for review / feedback / Checkin needed
  • bug 834632 - Update "testPluginDisableAffectsAboutPlugins.js" so it works with current features of Firefox about:plugins - needs reports
  • bug 800800 - Ensure we always wait for removeAllHistory() in places.js to stop the failure 'Browsing History has been cleared' - backport
  • bug 826251 - Make testPreferences/testPreferredLanguage.js language independend - feedback
  • bug 823064 - Refactor testDownloadManagerClosed.js for the new PB per-window mode - feedback
  • bug 838192 - Add screenshot functionality to assertion module - feedback
  • bug 611455 - 'Application disconnected' failure in restartTests/TestMasterPassword/test.2 - need-info
  • bug 732353 - Disable all Discovery Pane tests due to unpredictable web dependencies - feedback

• Working on:
  • bug 803489 - Software update tests on Windows 8 fail sometimes due to still running copies of Firefox
  • bug 809124 - restartTests/testAddons started failing with "Modal dialog has been found and processed" on 11-05-2012
  • bug 834163 - Teardown code for /testSearch tests should not exercise ui path which can cause failures like: "Modal dialog has been found and processed"
  • bug 832180 - Test failure "Unexpectedly found element ID: footer-right" in testToolbar/testStopReloadButtons.js - reproduced :)
  • bug 830384 - Create mozmill test for context menu functionality in PDF file
    • blocked due to the pdf library from Mihaela's bug 830379, work in progress
  • bug 489474 - Write automated tests for user generated video controls
  • bug 790538 - Enhance update tests to check for the 'what's new page' when `actions='silent'` given in update snippet
  • bug 783484 - Test failure 'Shutdown expected but none detected before end of test ' in /restartTests/testAddons_uninstallExtension/test4.js
  • bug 781547 - Failure in "/testBookmarks_OpenAllInTabs/test1.js" with "Default bookmarks have been imported"
  • bug 684801 - Timeout failure in /testTabView_SwitchTabs/test1.js | TabView is still open.
  • bug 813170 - Failure in testAddons_RestartlessExtensionWorksAfterRestart/test1.js | Disconnect Error: Application unexpectedly closed

Mobile (Robocop)

• Automation testing status
• Progress on Robocop Automation
• Bugs with work in progress:
  • bug 820276 - Robocop: Make editBookmark and checkBookmarkEdit methods available to other tests
  • bug 822259 - Robocop: Add test for Find in Page feature - blocked by bug 828481
  • bug 820859 - Robocop: Add test for 'Clear Private Data'
  • bug 830834 - Robocop: Add test for 'Show Search Suggestions' feature
  • bug 833832 - Robocop: Add test for Import from Android feature
• Bugs integrated since last meeting:
  • bug 745041 - Robocop: Add test for 'Clear History'
  • bug 830755 - Robocop: Add test for 'Settings Menu Items' feature
• Issues/Questions
  • Starting from about 1 week ago we are unable to make mobile builds. With the same configurations we have always used we get an error when linking with a "memory exhausted" error - we are looking into this - filed a new bug (bug 840025) - possible fix found this afternoon
  • We are still looking for a way to simulate the Tegra boards in order to test our patches and reproduce the fails on Tegras - email sent by Joel
  • Tony said that he would like to run some performance testing like having 100 bookmarks and history items or 100 tabs opened. Would this be feasible with Robocop?

Other Projects

• TBD

Roundtable

• Let's briefly discuss the recent CI failures and investigation that's been carried out

Presentation / Demo

• [%name%] %topic%

Triage

• mozmill-2.0?
• mozmill-2.0+

Personal Status

For the personal status please check the weekly status updates:

• 130211 - 130217

Meeting Notes

The meeting notes for this meeting can be read in the following etherpad:

• http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/automation-developer-meeting-20130211

Action items

• [NEW] [davehunt] Follow up with Henrik about what test/data we want to report to tbpl[2]
• Tony and Adrian will look into what robocop tests we could add for performance/stress
• [DONE] [davehunt] - Fix the exception that occurs in mozdownload
  • https://github.com/mozilla/mozdownload/pull/52
• [DONE] [davehunt] - Revisit the automatic retry of downloads in mozdownload
  • https://github.com/mozilla/mozdownload/pull/40