QA/TDAI/Goals/2009-Q2
This is both the agenda and the goals landing page for the Test Development and Automation team for Q2 2009. This is not official yet. It is in draft form.
Test Automation
Proposal (ctalbert): Greening Tinderboxes
- Institute a measuring system for tinderbox realibility
- Debug the known, observed, random failures, create a plan for handling random failures going forward.
Proposal (ctalbert): Close loop on Automation Suites
- JS Ref test framework landing in Q2 bug 469718
- Enable Build/Test infrastructure to run Mozmill tests (unit tests at least)
- Have Mozmill tests running automatically, reporting to results server and/or staging tboxes (as appropriate)
- Integrate Maemkit with Tinderbox, hand off to build
Proposal (jmaher): Research and develop tools to run unittests on Windows Mobile. This includes remote launching and refactoring existing tools
- Prototype in Q2
- formally finished in Q3
Test Development
Proposal (ctalbert): Expanding Test Coverage
- Shared Team Goal to increase test coverage by X amount, where X is a measurement of reducing in-test-suite-? areas and improving code coverage numbers on previously untouched pieces of code.
- Use code coverage results to identify functions within each team member's code area that are not covered well (< 40%)
- Attempt to identify any in-test-suite-? bugs that also address this area
- Create a list of the Y most wanted tests from the intersection of these points
- Write those tests to target those lines of code and/or the address the concerns raised w.r.t. to the in-test-suite-? flag
Proposal (jmaher): Define and implement method for Fennec specific tests (mochitest, chrome, browser-chrome, reftest, crashtest, xpcshell).
Proposal (jmaher): Develop tests which simulate Fennec specific hardware (such as hardkey press) to increase automated coverage and reduce litmus requirements
Community Leadership
Proposal (ctalbert): Use the "Most Wanted List" to expand code coverage
- Take the "Expanding Test Coverage" goal's "most wanted list" in each area and invite QA Community members (via QMO) and Development Community Members to help address these areas. This is crucial as most of the time we'll need the dev community to tell us how to write these tests anyway, so it makes sense for them to be working on these alongside us.
Proposal (jmaher): Develop a well defined set of tools/wishlist (thinking litmus, qac, mozmill features) that we can have available for summer internships, summer coding challenges or school projects. Something that can increase our set of tools with features that help Mozilla as well as the general community if they wish to reuse our tools.
Test Tools
Proposal (ctalbert): Release a redesigned QAC
Proposal (ctalbert): Mozmill 1.2 (or 1.1.1) Maintenance Release
Proposal (ctalbert): Results Server Should be Reporting Mozmill Results
Proposal (jmaher): Results Server Should be Reporting Fennec unittest Results. This is the ability to store results for various test runs and a a tool can query the result server to display the differences in tests run on fennec vs firefox.
Personal Goals
Clint
- Help achieve the "Greener Tinderbox" goal by leading that project
- Do 10 phone screens to find candidates to fill our top two Test Dev Positions
- Aid with the "Expanding Test Coverage" by working in the Content area until we get help there
- Continue to lower the barrier to entry and create visibility for Test Dev by blogging biweekly and working with QMO