B2G/QA/Automation/UI/Strategy

Team Mandates

• Establish visible subject matter expertise in automation
• Own, expand and maintain QA User Acceptance Test (UAT) automation
• Increase confidence in UAT automation
• Provide expert assistance to improve all phases of UI test coverage
• Catch problems quickly and effectively
• Increase community support for FxOS QA
• Increase quality of and confidence in the product

Challenges

• Automation systems and concerns are poorly documented
• Development and QA have different approaches and needs from UI testing
• UI tests have had no developer support, largely because of Python implementation
• Team has been blocked too much by cross-team dependencies
• Test results are hidden in Jenkins
• Test results have too many spurious failures to sheriff
• Test results only looked at a limited number of times per day
• Community paths poorly defined and advertised

Plan

• Separate automation concerns for Gaia Integration and Gaia User Acceptance Tests (UATs)

For Gaia UATs:

• Streamline current execution for increased responsiveness
• Document how we develop and execute UAT automation
• Develop the Gaia UAT harness, based on Marionette JS
• Increase the coverage using the Gaia UAT harness

For Gaia Integration:

• Assist the functional teams by increasing coverage
• Move existing Python tests to JS for wider ownership

For Community:

• Find and implement new approaches to increasing community involvement (plan TBD)