QA/Platform/DOM

About the Team

People

• Manager: Andrew Overholt (overholt)
• Engineers: Ehsan Akhgari (ehsan), Anne van Kesteren (annevk), Josh Matthews (jdm), Ben Turner (bent), Boris Zbarsky (bz)
• QA: Anthony Hughes (ashughes)

How to Contact Us

• Real-time chat takes place on the #content channel on irc.mozilla.org
• Discussions take place on the dev-platform mailing list.

Meetings

We do not generally hold team meetings at this time.

Strategy

This page documents the QA strategy for testing Mozilla's DOM implementation. Our primary objective is the continuous improvement of DOM quality through two-week sprints of open, transparent, and data-driven qualification processes.

Documentation

Guides:

• DOM Developer Guide
• How to install Mercurial
• How to build Firefox
• How to run the web platform tests
• Helping DOM QA

Reference:

• DOM APIs
• WebAPI wiki page
• Feature Roadmap
• Feature Testplan Template

Current Initiatives

• improve work flow of incoming and outgoing bugs
• improve test coverage in the web platform tests
• improve test coverage of in-product features prior to shipping in a Firefox release
• improving accessibility to participating in team activities

Triage

Triage is the process of going through a list of bugs to identify and prioritize bugs for testing.

Queries

• Top crashes to make sure bugs are assigned and on track
• Regressions to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Unconfirmed bugs to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Intermittent failures to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Resolved bugs to find bugs needing better test coverage or manual verification

Backlog

• Requests for investigation
• Requests for verification
• Requests for automation

Features

Roadmap / Trello / Template

Feature	Target Milestone	Assignee	Tracking Bug	Development	Testing
Screen Orientation API	Firefox 40 (August 11, 2015)	William Chen [:wchen]	bug 1043102	IN PROGRESS
Service Workers	Firefox 39 (June 30, 2015)	Nikhil Marathe [:nsm]	bug 903441	IN PROGRESS
IndexedDB/SQLite Performance	Firefox 39 (June 30, 2015)	Ben Turner [:bent]	several	DONE	PENDING FEEDBACK
Picture Tag	Firefox 38 (May 12, 2015)	John Schoenick [:johns]	bug 870022	DONE	PENDING FEEDBACK
BroadcastChannel API	Firefox 38 (May 12, 2015)	Andrea Marchesini [:baku]	bug 966439	DONE	DONE
IndexedDB in Workers	Firefox 37 (March 31, 2015)	Ben Turner [:bent]	bug 701634	DONE	DONE
Web Sockets in Workers	Firefox 37 (March 31, 2015)	Andrea Marchesini [:baku]	bug 504553	DONE	DONE