TestEngineering/UI

WebQA Overview

Through a variety of tools and approaches, WebQA aims to ensure high quality web applications, of both external and internal applications and websites.

Contact Us

• [mozwebqa [a t] mozilla [d o t] org MozWebQA mailing list]
• IRC (Use Mibbit.com or Chatzilla if IRC is new to you.)

New Hires

Some useful information about getting started is available here

Team Details

We welcome community members to join us and take on tasks and responsibilities; please see our Get Involved page for more information/engage.

Team Members and Assignments

Name	Email Address	Availability	Project Assignments / Interests
Stephen Donner	stephend [at] mozilla [dot] com	Employee	Team lead; AMO, Input, Socorro, Firefox.com redesign
Rebecca Billings	rbillings [at] mozilla [dot] com	Employee	SUMO lead, Input
Raymond Etornam	[withheld to avoid spam]	Employee	Selenium automation, Hudson, Mozilla.com, Plugin Check, MDN, SFx (as-needed)
Vishal Kamdar	vkamdar [at] mozilla [dot] com	Contractor (full-time)	Selenium Automation, Socorro Litmus (stephend to help define/write tests -- smoke/BFT), GetPersonas
Krupa Raj	kraj [at] mozilla [dot] com	Employee	AMO lead, Mozilla.com (redesign), Spread Firefox, All 4 One
David Burns	dburns [at] mozilla [dot] com	Employee	Automation Lead
Tanay Gavankar	tgavankar [at] mozilla [dot] com	Contractor	SUMO/AMO automation, Hudson
Pratibha	pratibha [at] smartware [dot] com	Contractor	AMO, Input - writing/running Litmus tests
Milos Dinic	milos [at] mozilla-srbija [dot] org	Contributor	AMO
Tom Ellins	tmz [at] mozilla-uk [dot] org	Contributor	SUMO
Toby Markus	tobbi [at] mozilla-uk [dot] org	Contributor	SUMO
Truman Smith	trumanwsmith [at] gmail [dot] com	Contributor	Selenium automation (AMO)

Webdev Release Calendar

• Webdev Releases calendar
  • ICS format

Meetings

Every other Friday @ 11am PDT/PST

Dial-in Information:

650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 303 (US/INTL)
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 303 (US)

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Meetings/2010-12-03
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/Meetings/2010-11-19

Team Goals

Q4 Goals

Current Projects

Webdev Radar

Project (page)	Description	Current release/test plan	Level	Lead/contact	Staging server(s)	Hudson URL
AMO	Add-ons website	AMO 5.12.4	1	Krupa	https://preview.addons.mozilla.org (trunk); https://next.addons.mozilla.org (release branch)	CI
SUMO / Test Pilot]	Firefox Support website	2.3 Testplan	1	Rebecca	https://master.support.mozilla.com (trunk); https://support-stage.mozilla.com (branch)	CI
Mozilla.com	Mozilla's corporate presence	RedesignTestPlan	1	Raymond	http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com	CI
Spread Firefox	Spread Firefox website	.	1	Raymond	http://spreadfirefox.stage.mozilla.com/
Plugin Check	Plugin Check	Plugin Check	2	Raymond	http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/plugincheck
Soccorro (page is about Socorro, but called Breakpad)	Crash Stats	1.7.6	2	Stephen / Vishal	http://crash-stats.stage.mozilla.com	CI
Input	Mozilla's primary feedback mechanism	2.1	1	Stephen / Prathiba	http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/	CI
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)	Developer Documentation, News, Tips and Tricks	TestPlan	2	Raymond	http://mdn.staging.mozilla.com/en-US
Text Affiliates Links	n/a	Test Plan	2	Stephen	http://spreadfirefox.stage.mozilla.com/affiliates
Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)	Developer Documentation	ongoing	2	Raymond	https://developer-stage.mozilla.org/En
Student Recruiting	College and intern recruiting website	Test Plan	1	Raymond	http://college.stage.mozilla.com/
Demos	Fill me in later	Fill me in later	1	Raymond	staging site URL here
Global Map	Fill me in later	Fill me in later	1	Vishal	staging site URL here
All for One	Fill me in later	Fill me in later	1	Needs owner	staging site URL here
Collage	Fill me in later	Fill me in later	1	Needs owner	staging site URL here
Red Panda	Fill me in later	Fill me in later	1	Needs owner	http://panda.stage.mozilla.com/

** Don't forget to make yourself familiar with the latest Firefox release schedules, as we might be doing work involved with them **

Get Involved

We'd love to have your help in testing our many projects; please see our Get Involved page for more information

Resources

Support Levels

Please read through our support levels when proposing a new project for us.

Test Plan Template

• Web Test Plan Template

Useful Tools

• HTML5 validator:
  • HTML5 Validator
• Link-checkers:
  • W3C's Link Checker
  • Xenu Windows link-checking app
• Scanners/Fuzzers:
  • XSS Me
  • SQL Inject Me
  • Netsparker Community Edition
  • PowerFuzzer Windows fuzzing tool
  • Acunetix Community Edition scanner

Security Tests

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_QA_Checklist
  • Quick AJAX tests (how you know if you can break it):
    • There is no login check.
    • There is no POST check.
    • Can POST something that is not an integer for id or addon_id.
    • Can POST an integer that is not a real id (404).

Infrastructure / Server Info

• https://intranet.mozilla.org/WebSites

Tips and Pointers

• Tips and pointers to testing the various projects:
  • AMO
  • SUMO
  • Mozilla.com
  • Spread Firefox
  • Personas
  • MCC
• Various web-testing tools
• curl -i http://www.mozilla.com -- that gives you the raw output in your terminal window
• while [ 1 ]; do curl -sI 'http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6.8&os=osx&lang=en-US' | grep Location; sleep 1; done

Community Outreach

• Testdays

Reference Links

• Webdev
• Website Localization
• IT Acceptance
• IT's Service-Level Agreements
• Launch Checklist
• SVN info on servers - need MPT access
• User Agent Strings

Documentation

Documentation

Archives

Slides from my 11/3/2010 presentation at the London Selenium Meetup @ Google
Slides from my 10/22/2010 presentation at Mozilla HQ
Slides from my 6/24/2009 presentation at Mozilla HQ
Slides from Raymond's 5/19/2010 presentation at Mozilla HQ