Thu 29 Mar 2012
This is 2nd to last week of the quarter and we have been busy closing off projects!
Henrik has implemented the dynamic job execution per node group for running daily and L10N Firefox builds. This means that we can consume Pulse messages and trigger tests for that specific platform. We are also looking at how we can find a solution for running scripts cross platform without having to duplicate certain parts of the code. This goal should be finished by the end of the quarter. He is also wanting to use a new tool called Pulse build monitor from the Automation and Tools Team to make processing of Pulse messages easier.
I have pretty much finished the validation code for Mozmill Dashboard. This goal should be finished too by the end of the quarter and then we just need a quick security review we can finally close it off!
Memchaser now has support for the new GC/CC API by listening for Observer notifications. We have also made updates for what info is being logged after a request from the JavaScript team. We have also been working on a few different features and still on track for a 3 April release!
We have also successfully published a new version of Nightly Tester Tools Addon and have passed review so make sure to get the update!
We have a number of projects that could do with some help so if you have free time have a look and see how you can help us!
Look out for future updates and if you want to join our team meetings you can get all of the details at here and you can also get notes from previous meetings.
Area: blog
Thu 22 Mar 2012
The team continues to close out projects for the quarter.
Henrik has continued working on the MozMill CI automation. He has added nodes for items to be run on windows and is now
moving on to having items setup in Linux. He will then be working on code so that we distribute all the testing across
all of the machines. This is really coming together and I look forward to the end result.
I have been working on getting things ready for working with Simon Stewart on the W3C Browser Automation Spec which will
be doing next week! Hopefully not long after you read this you will be able to see it nearly complete!!
I have also been working on the Mozmill Dashboard validation code. This will hopefully be a trivial amount of work to
finish off and then I will be submitting it for a security review with the Mozilla InfraSec team.
Henrik has released MemChaser 0.2.1 last week to be able to use the new console parser code that was added. Have a look at all the
new details in his blog post.
Dave has been investigating a regression in memory usage within Firefox. All the details can be found in Bug 724553
We have a number of projects that could do with some help so if you have free time have a look and see how you can help us!
Look out for future updates and if you want to join our team meetings you can get all of the details at here and you can also get notes from previous meetings.
Area: blog
Thu 15 Mar 2012
This week the team has been busy starting to wrap up projects as we near the end of the quarter.
We are releasing a new version of Nightly Tester Tools after have made a few minor changes. Henrik has been working with a couple contributors to get it done. You can download the latest version from AMO!
Geo, Henrik and Dave have been working to finish off our Mozmill CI system. Geo has been trying to solve and issue with Windows 2000 machines executing tests from Jenkins. Henrik has managed to get specific tests to be executed for different branches when Mozilla Pulse notifies about finished Firefox builds. This is all starting to look very good!
I have started work on data validation for the Mozmill Dashboard, the web application we use to view results. This is a minor task that is needed for the dashboard to become visible to the outside world!
Memchaser has had a couple pull requests opened recently. We are looking to add a few more features by the end of the month and release another version out on AMO!
We have a number of projects that could do with some help so if you have free time have a look and see how you can help us!
Look out for future updates and if you want to join our team meetings you can get all of the details at here and you can also get notes from previous meetings.
Area: blog
Thu 08 Mar 2012
It's amazing how quickly a week can go by!
The team has been hard at work on all of their projects.
Cameron has managed to get a stage and dev server up and running for Case Conductor so that people can help test it.
Dave has also done a proof of concept of a Proposal he blogged about a while back. With this, and being on track for a 1.0 release of Case Conductor at the end of the month this is looking great!
Our CI projects for Mozill are coming along nicely. Geo has been testing on getting this multiple Windows versions. Multi-platform products can create an interesting matrix of what needs testing.Henrik added support for Firefox ESR 10.0 to the CI system and will finishing that off soon! I am really excited by this project.
If you missed it last week, Memchaser 0.2 has been released and blogged about it! Thanks to the entire team for contributing to this!
Finally, David Guo, our intern, has been working on moving our Mozmill tests over to work with Mozmill 2.0. Currently we are working with 1.5.x and have been waiting for 2.0 to be stablised. The A*team have done a great job of stabising the code for us to now update!
We have a number of projects that could do with some help so if you have free time have a look and see how you can help us!
Look out for future updates and if you want to join our team meetings you can get all of the details at here and you can also get notes from previous meetings.
Area: blog
Fri 02 Mar 2012
The team have been really busy over the last week. Dave Hunt joined the WebQA work week. They had their first ever live test day. I suggest that you go have a read of what happened on Dave's blog. I for one am really glad that it was success and hope that it can be emulated again in the new London office soon!
The team has also been really hard at work getting Memchaser 0.2 finished. Henrik Skupin has blogged about what we improvements have been made. This has been approved on AMO so you should be told about the update soon!!.
Cameron has been working on Case Conductor and has release 0.8. Major kudos to him on getting it all the way to this point and still be on track for a 1.0 release at the end of the month!
We have a number of projects that could do with some help so if you have free time have a look and see how you can help us!
Look out for future updates and if you want to join our team meetings you can get all of the details at here and you can also get notes from previous meetings.
Area: blog
