Compatibility/Meetings/2016-06-work-week

This is the agenda and logistics page for Web Compatibility Team Work Week meeting in London (UK) from June 13 to June 17, 2015.

• Previous Work Week: Orlando, USA, December 2015.
• Next Work Week: Hawaii, USA, December 2016.

Logistics

• Location: London, UK (Tea and Biscuits)

Attendees:

• Karl Dubost

  Arrival: Monday, June 13 (probably Boat from France + Train to London)
  Departure: Saturday, June 18 (Train + Boat)

• Mike Taylor

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• Hallvord Steen

  Arrival: Monday, June 13, 10:20 (LHR)
  Departure: Thursday, June 16th, 11:20 (LHR)

• Adam Stevenson

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Agenda

Mon, June 13, 2016

Welcome everyone.

Topics Bank

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WebCompat.com Development

Usability testing for webcompat.com

Usability testing of our various "report a site problem" features (aiming to streamline as much as possible). I suggest we list or set up couple of pages that have known bugs/brokenness, and challenge random all-hands participants to load URLs and report the problems, then observe them using either extensions, the firefox:input feature or the webcompat.com form.

Better filtering UI for webcompat.com

Better filtering UI on webcompat.com is very important. I'll keep nagging about https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/issues/795 until we get it right.

Deployment scripts for webcompat.com

(when miketaylr is on holidays or sick) See Also

Merging PR for webcompat.com

(when miketaylr is on holidays or sick) How do we manage the PR merging and its conflicts for deploying.

WebCompat.com Community

Expectations for NeedsDiagnosis

As a group we do not share the same expectations for what should be in needsdiagnosis state, and what it should not. It would be good to discuss it so we have a kind of agreememnt about it. For example, this was switched to needscontact without where in the scripts it is bogus. It's just a general description of the issue.

• What are the entrance criteria for needsdiagnosis flag?
• What are the entrance criteria for needscontact flag?

Automation

• Compatipede-2 plug-ins: the ones we have (demo), how to write them (workshop)

• Looking at the DOM, HTTP, CSS and JS: what are interesting data points to record for comparison and tracking over time? (Discussion - good to do before that workshop - we'd write plug-ins to track new data points).

• Matching/diffing error messages from Gecko and WebKit - can we write some code that can give us a meaningful diff and tell us what errors happened in engine A but not in B? (new Compatipede analysis module?)

• What should our approach be to automating *interactivity* for automated tests, such as automated log-in? (discussion, hack session)

• We can create some spin-off statistics for purposes that are not strictly compat but "nearby" like memory usage. How, and what's important? Memory usage? Can we measure jank? Scroll performance?

• Explore working on the proposed WebExtensions-based Firefox/Chrome add-on to control the browser on behalf of Compatipede, to move off SlimerJS and Phantom (there's some initial code somewhere on GitHub - a Boar branch I think)

• Should we aim for testing on real devices? If yes, how do we bridge the gap between Compatipede and the Firefox instance on the device? Marionette (whenever it comes to Fennec..)? WebExtensions (whenever it comes to Fennec..)? Nodejs-Marionette (testing on FxOS devices)? A custom-written devtools protocol client? Something else?

DevTools

• Can we contribute more to DevTools QA?