EngineeringProductivity/Meetings/2011-09-26

RoundTable

Goals

  • Work with release engineering to reduce overall end-to-end time from push to test result to an average of 2 hours.
  • Ensure all harnesses and tests are E10S ready
  • Improve performance testing by finalizing user-activated addons performance system, xperf-enabled performance testing, and automating a user responsiveness performance test.

Automation

  • Go Faster (P1) - jgriffin, ted, mdas, bc, ctalbert, wlach
    • Some minor further improvements pushed to gofaster dashboard (see: bug 688588, bug 686034)
    • Probably easing away from further improvements to dashboard for now. Some bugs still unfixed (e.g. bug 686036, bug 687600). Thoughts?
  • Mobile Support (P1) - jmaher, bmoss, ctalbert
  • Bug Hunter (P1) - bc
  • Mozmill 2.0/1.5.x (P1) - jhammel, harth, ctalbert
    • two bugs left!
    • will release a new beta today
    • other than that, we're in a holding pattern
  • Crossweave 2 - jgriffin

Performance

  • Talos/User Responsiveness (P1) - anode, ted
  • Talos/Addon Testing Service (P1) - anode
  • Talos/General (P1) - anode
  • Talos/Xperf (P2) - jmaher
  • Eideticker (P2) - mcote, wlach
    • Project synopsis now on public wiki
    • Video capture prototype now up as a github project
    • Discussion of architecture issues, etc. last week
    • Going with talos for now as a harness
      • First iteration will just capture loading static pages
      • Second iteration may use more complex simulated user interactions. Some initial thoughts in this message.
    • Video capture machine (+ LG Android device with HDMI out) now at wlach's house

Web Tools

  • War on Orange/Auto-log (P1) - jgriffin, mcote
    • View for Bug Correlations awaiting review.
  • Bugzilla Improvements (P1) - dkl, glob
    • The decision has been made to modify the core Bugzilla code where appropriate to best suit how Mozilla uses it; this should result in faster improvements to Bugzilla with a tighter focus on our requirements
    • Tweaks to searching (comments not searched by default, google searching integrated)
    • Various bug fixes and tweaks
  • Regression Hunter (P1) - harth
  • DXR Automation/Support {P2} - mdas
  • Personal Bugzilla Dashboard (P2) - harth

Tool Infrastructure

  • SpecialPowers (P1) - jmaher, ted
  • MozBase (P2) - jmaher, jhammel, ted
  • Web UX Platform (P2) - mcote, harth
    • A couple more useful JS libraries added in.
  • flyingtanks - mcote
    • WOO update complete, no security concerns.
      • Will be installing it on flyingtanks soon (but brasstacks' copy will be up until everything is reviewed & migrated).

Misc