QA/Automation/Projects/Automation Training

Given our knowledge in automation for various Mozilla related projects, our goal is to support interested people in gaining their knowledge in software development and especially test automation. Therefor we are planning to have 4 automation training this quarter, on #automation channel.

Name:	Automation Trainings
Leads:	Andreea Matei, Cosmin Malutan
Contributors:	n/a
Etherpad:	https://etherpad.mozilla.org/automation-training

Roadmap

Date	Version	Details
June 30th, 2014	-	4 automation trainings done

How To Contribute

First step to contribute is to join our training days! You will find there all the details on getting started and find a list of tasks for you to contribute.

• Talk to the project leads about which tasks are best to take
• Browser-chrome Tests

• create tests for to cover bugs fixed in the current in-development versions of Firefox: http://mzl.la/1rjcoZw
• create tests for new Firefox features: http://mzl.la/1dpjus3
• bug 987185 - Add test for the functionality of the Sync button when user is signed into an account
• bug 987159 - Add test for the Feeds functionality
• bug 988895 - Add test for the functionality of Developer panel in Australis
• bug 988913 - Add automated est for the history panel functionality in Australis

• Mozmill (Tests)
  • bug 882137 - Refactor the jsdoc for mozmill-tests repository
  • bug 856018 - Create a mozmill test for entering permanent PB mode
• Mentored bugs:
  • Javascript: http://tinyurl.com/ogtnd8b
  • Python: http://tinyurl.com/ozqgyng
• Mochitests
• Reftests / Crashtests
• Gaia Tests
  • http://bit.ly/Gaia-UI-tests-first-bug
• WebQA:
  • http://bit.ly/WebQA-Issues

List of Tasks

We will add here the tasks need for each training day

Task	Owner	Status
Prepare invite mail	Cosmin	Not Started
Write blog post article	Andreea	Not started
Advertise the training days in the community (talk to Ioana Chiorean for help)	Andreea	Not started
Make sure to change #automation topic channel for those days	Cosmin	Not started
Reply to the invite mail and write a blog post with details after each training day	Andreea and Cosmin	Not started

Documentation

• Introduction into Test Frameworks
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Automated_testing (Mozilla automated testing - frameworks overview)

References

• Getting Started
  • Javascript
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript (online course)
    • http://bonsaiden.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/ (good practices)
    • http://eloquentjavascript.net/ (book - accessible as HTML)
    • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript (reference)
  • Python
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
    • https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
  • HTML / CSS
    • http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web