QA/Browser Technologies/2011-08-11

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Discussion Items

• Whois page
  • Thanks to Aaron for including onto our wiki. Faceless people, please upload a profile picture!

• Fennec stuff
  • Releases
    • Merge and ship is next week. Is it actually merging/shipping the same day? if so, how are we handing test coverage here
    • 6 - we good to go? The two bugs i dont see verified yet.
    • 7 - this the final feature list? Have we gotten QA contacts for each feature?
    • 8 - same for this one, i like the breakdown of the bugs. Have we gotten QA contacts for each feature?
  • Fennec Automation - Martijn
    • update on road to 100k tests
      • layout/style/tests problems have been identified. 2 of them have been fixed (one by me, scrollbar issue). 1 on them, jmaher will try and fix before turning layout/style/tests/ on. The last one will probably just be turned off for mobile until the relevant bug for that one has been fixed.
      • Next directory: editor/libeditor/html (this is a retry!)
    • update on crowdsource addon work (still needs a name!)

• BrowserID - James
  • Basic overview of BrowserID: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7616727542/introducing-browserid-a-better-way-to-sign-in
  • Technical overview of BrowserID: http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works
  • Beta (QA) deployment environment
    • Server: https://diresworb.org/
    • Client: http://beta.myfavoritebeer.org/
  • QA test/tools environment - TBD
    • This will be built out on id2.mtv1.dev.svc.mozilla.com as BrowserID server
    • QA can then build any BrowserID-supported client to test against id2.
  • Weekly train
    • Thursday deployments to Beta in parallel with newest release to Prod
    • Active QA testing and regression happens the following Monday - Wednesday
  • Upcoming changes/enhancements: (much) better client-side and server-side UI, security review, session support Add-On, integration with Pancake
  • Current BrowserID support matrix (a work in progress):
    • https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArxosXOjCBacdHNrWFdBQmE3RU0xRFFwMUcxQWdRcXc&hl=en_US

• Keeping up with Content on Pages
  • QMO needs a doc facelift
    • Services landing page - James
    • browserID docs - James
    • Sync docs and video - Tracy
  • BT wiki needs a Mobile Firefox landing page. Will modifty it a bit like the Services QA page. - Tony

• Tablet purchasing
  • File an IT bug, everyone on this team should have one
  • which ones? lets discuss

Project Status

• Fennec (kevin, aaron)
  • Automation (martijn)

• Sync
  • Client (Tracy)
  • Server (James)
    • The next Sync Server train is on hold due to some HW issues with the new Stage environment (what used to be called the Sync Load Test Cluster).
    • When it arrives, it will actually be a "train of trains": four major deployments covering the following bugs: Bug 676109, 670946, 676296, 676351
  • Load Testing (Owen)

• Test pilot (tracy)

• BrowserID (james)
  • The first weekly train happened this week - QA reported 18 issues.
  • The next weekly train will show up tomorrow Friday, with QA testing starting Monday.
  • Deployment to the Beta (QA) environment as part of the weekly train seems to be quite successful.
• Pancake (Naoki)

• Open Web Apps (tchung)
  • Roadmap discussion next week with OWA team
  • lots of moving parts, need to determine what BT will own
  • Feature list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/Features