Auto-tools/Meetings/2013-05-13

Notices, Highlights, Roundtable

• One more week to talk to mcote if you want to be interviewed for the Mozilla Summit Planning Assembly.

Goals

• Goal: Improve Developer/QA ergonomics around running and debugging automation by:
  • Add debugger support to B2G testrunners
  • Improve patch review experience on bugzilla/Make bugzilla more user-centric
  • Replace graph server with Datazilla for all desktop Talos tests
  • Create a project branch view of B2G builds/tests that tracks commits per target, rather than per repo (all commits to any repo for unagi for instance) joint with releng

• Goal: Improve stability, reliability, and scalability of automation platforms by:
  • Addressing all P1 B2G automation stability issues
  • Complete native REST interface for Bugzilla
  • Complete Mochitest to Mozbase port
  • Create POC Microbenchmark suite to get feedback from developers for its usefulness
  • Reduce orange factor to 5 or lower (for the last three weeks of the quarter) by driving awareness among developers, following up with assignees, and fixing intermittent automation failures.
  • Update pulse so that its dependent (client side) libraries are current for its use in Tree Herder
  • Create a prototype and a specification for a rig to power cycle real phones. Have a vendor selected to build the rig by end of quarter.

• Goal: Build toward our future by:
  • Deploy a minimally viable TBPL replacement by end of quarter, aim to switch over mid-Q3
  • Release a mozmill 2 and work with contributor community to drive toward a 2.1
  • Automate a scrolling fps test using camera Eideticker measurements for Contacts, Email, Settings, and Message apps
  • Create and Deploy BMO user profile data for community building and education
  • Create a solid net and filter system to build a bugmaster community
  • Identify 5 things we can do to increase our infrastructure capacity by 10% through more streamlined usage and bringing new capacity online. (joint with releng)
  • Enable performance and test automation to run on Android x86 hardware, investigate Android 2.3.x support on Pandas.

Deep Dives

Tools (2nd Monday)

Tinderboxpushlog

• [edmorley] New things in production: https://bugzil.la/868493,869365,868290,687143
• [edmorley] Patches: https://bugzil.la/868493,869365
• [edmorley] Reviewed bug 868290, bug 687143.

War on Orange

• OrangeFactor on trunk for last 7 days: 7.72
• [edmorley] Another review of bug 738333.
• [edmorley] Debugging problems with switch from ES metrics DB to the IT managed one in SCL3 (bug 848834).
• [edmorley] Discussions about OF log parsing & overlap with TBPL.

General Framework Support (4th Monday)

MozBase

• [edmorley] Reviewed bug 761586.

In-tree Automation/Harnesses

• [edmorley] Reviewed bug 868329.

Process (4th Monday)

Sheriffing & Trees

• [edmorley] 4-day week due to UK public holiday.

Treestatus

• [edmorley] Patch for bug 869963.
• [edmorley] WIP patch to add more tree-closure reason tags to treestatus, to aid stats generation (bug 871588).

Holidays and Trips

• Holiday in Canada on Monday, May 20 (Victoria Day aka La journée nationale des patriotes because Quebec has to be different).
• Holiday in the US on Monday, May 27 (Memorial Day).