QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-10-12-2011

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QA Staff Meeting Notes Oct 12, 2011

QA Org Items

  • New Hires
    • John M, Sevices QA team - ETA 11/7
  • Upcoming Events
    • Mobile summit Mon 10/17/11. Attendees: Aaron, Kevin, Naoki, Martijn
    • Ioana Chiorean and Vlad Maniac of Softvision will visit Mozilla Office between OCT 19-27
    • GTAC meet & greet mixer https://mozqa.sync.in/mozwebqa-GTAC-party-planning
    • [unconfirmed] Naoki and Tony to represent QA at MozCampAsia. Proposals still in flux.
  • PTOs
    • [juanb]: Oct 13, 14; wedding in Seattle (my brother's).
    • tchung: oct 16-28, pto, hawaii.
    • Dave Hunt: Any day now, for 2 weeks.
    • Henrik Skupin: Oct 13, 14

Discussion Items

  • overview of 7.0.1 postmortem - Anthony
    • discuss testing updates focus
  • q3 goals overview
    • team leads any take aways from Q3?
  • q4 goals review
    • matt added the top level org goals
    • add bhags to team goals (etherpad for each team)
  • scrumpads discussion
    • move to new system
    • overview of usage
  • pass down from directors meeting
    • native fennec
    • win8
    • Progress on Team Slides?
      • Would like these in advance of some of the upcoming events.
      • 2-3 Slides that show easy paths to contribute to your particular team area.

QA Team Updates

Desktop Firefox (Juan, Anthony)

  • Firefox 8 (juanb): Testing in progress, to be released Friday morning.
  • Firefox 9 (ashughes)
  • Firefox 10 (juanb): Heads up on probable compatibility issues due to two digit version. Web Compatibility test run in planning phase.
  • Crash Status and Investigation
  • Maintenance and Security ESR (Al)
  • New Lab Operating Systems Available
    • Windows 8 Developer Preview
    • Windows 2000

Browser Technologies (Tony)

  • Issues
    • Native Fennec for Android project announced this week as a top Priority, starting Firefox 10. QA brainstorm here
    • The "503 meltdown of 2011" post mortem is scheduled 10/13
  • Fennec (Aaron/Kevin)
    • Performance Benchmark baseline to be established
    • Crash reporting for Fennec working with Socorro team
    • biweekly newsletter being sent out
    • Toronto Mobile Workweek next week
  • Sync (Tracy)
    • Sync fell over last week due to servers not being prepared for load increase of Instant Sync released in Fx7. Client was also not correctly respecting back-off requests from the server which made it difficult for OPs to repair the servers on the fly. Post-mortem scheduled for 10/13
    • Setup process has been somewhat simplified and Mobile devices can now initiate device pairing process before a sync account is even setup.
    • Mihaela from Softvision is getting up to speed with weekly client train cycles and is starting to take on some test case writing.
  • Test pilot (tracy)
    • Test Pilot for Mobile was released last week as was updated version for desktop
  • Sync Server (jbonacci)
    • Deployments have been delayed for a couple of weeks due to the sync/503 meltdown and other issues
    • Upcoming (planned) deployments:
      • Bug 693385 - deploy updated server-core (2.6.x) to syncstorage
      • server-node-assignment rpm-1.6-1
      • Something for Account Portal
      • Bug 686485 - roll out membase
  • BrowserID (jbonacci)
    • BrowserID has taken a giant step forward with the current Beta train: 10/06/2011
      • New functionality, certs support, IE9 support, and, of course, the new UI
    • BrowserID Test Day 1 is coming up this Friday, 10/14/2011
    • ==> QA NEEDS MODERATORS! ... https://etherpad.mozilla.org/testday-20111014 <==
  • Pancake (nhirata)
    • .17 Release
    • backend algorithm is being revamped
    • Places is being used

WebQA (Stephen)

Community (Marcia)

  • Video Work
    • Revised nightly video has been completed and a bug has been filed to get it upon the Nightly First Run page.
  • QMO.next (Al):

QA Automation Service (Henrik, David)

  • General
  • Selenium
    • Selenium 2.8 has been released
  • Mozmill
    • Mozmill 1.5.5 has been released
    • Mozmill 2.0rc1 has been released
    • A-team has started work on Mozmill 2.1 (e10s support)

Project updates

  • Project pages for new projects have to be created and leads have to be assigned:
    • Fully automated Mozmill tests for releases
    • Prototype of Fennec driver
    • Community Documentation
    • CI system for daily and localized Firefox builds
    • Selenium Grid for Android and iOS
    • Long-term Goals for 2012
Case Conductor

Notes, Takeaways and Action Items

Today

Last Meeting

  • Action Items
    • draft of Q4 goals for teams by tuesday
    • draft of Q4 goals for individuals by end of week
    • add feedback to workweek for those that haven't commented yet
    • mevans: schedule of post mort
      • how to respond on emergency situation; checklist to be followed/consulted
    • marlenac to post as QMO event about E. Hendrickson's brown bag
    • all: overall presentation; each group does it's talk
    • Marlena/David : event planning for GTAC
    • Mevans : ask James Whittiker for brown bag
    • David C: Blog post about his unit test development framework
    • Juan : update tests for chemspill issue
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