Auto-tools/Goals/2011Q3

Goals

This time around, we are limited to three goals. Coming up with three goals general enough to cover what we do and specific enough to be goals is not easy. So, beneath each goal, I list the projects that I think each of these goals covers.

• [ON TRACK] Support developers by reducing the overall end-to-end time from push to test results and by finalizing tools for crash analysis and streamlining sheriffing.
  • [ON TRACK] bughunter
  • [ON TRACK] gofaster
  • [DONE] WOO

• [ON TRACK] Support future development efforts (E10S, new automation harnesses etc) by leading the effort to make our tests E10S ready and by ensuring we have concrete building blocks for new harnesses to ease harness-automation-integration issues.
  • [ON TRACK] Specialpowers/test moving (i.e. getting rid of enable Privilege)
  • [ON TRACK] Mozbase
  • [DONE] webux/autolog (as part of our tool-chain integration)
  • [NEW] Any new harnesses we need (Rust?) (decided that new harnesses weren't priority this quarter, except for user responsiveness)
  • [ON TRACK] I put bugzilla improvements in this category even though they aren't called out. Because the bugzilla improvements we're doing are for supporting future development.

• [ON TRACK] Continue to improve our performance testing: complete addons performance testing service for startup time, create plan with Release Engineering to improve talos deployment process, codify new approaches to performance measurements for user responsiveness.
  • [AT RISK] Eideticker
  • [DONE] talos addons
  • [DONE] talos xperf
  • [ON TRACK] talos better deployment
  • [ON TRACK] talos-izing user responsiveness metric for E10S