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Fall Brings With It Some Changes As Clint, our Director of Quality, wrote in his Getting Ready for Fall blogpost, there are some process and project-coverage/testing-approach changes underway to the ways the individual QA teams (and as a whole) work, … Continue reading → Continue reading
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I’m writing today to present the bug statistics for Firefox 27. My apologies for the tardiness of this blog post; too many things have got in my way recently. I try to get these posts out at the end of life of the respective Firefox version as that allows me to present the statistics across… Continue reading
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The last 24 hours have really been quite an adventure in debugging. It all started last week when I decided to order a Nexus 5 from Google. It arrived yesterday, on time, and I couldn’t wait to get home to unbox it. Soon after unboxing my new Nexus 5 I would discover something was not… Continue reading
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A few days ago a wrote a post detailing a qualitative analysis of Firefox 26 using statistics from Bugzilla. In it I talked about regressions and the volume speaking to a “potential failure, something that was missed, not accounted for, or unable to be tested either by the engineer or by QA”. I’d like to… Continue reading
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[Edit: @ttaubert informed me the charts weren’t loading so I’ve uploaded new images instead of linking directly to my document] The release of Firefox 27 is imminently upon us, next week will mark the end of life for Firefox 26. As such I thought it’d be a good time to look back on Firefox 26… Continue reading
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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to embark on a two week vacation to the Philippines with my boyfriend, Genesis. His family being from the Philippines it was a natural first destination to Asia for me. As luck would have it the adventure started well before we were due to depart. Our original… Continue reading
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We hit another milestone this week. After 24 weeks, 12 Betas, and 3 RCs, Firefox 25 was tested, signed-off, and shipped to the general public. Since Firefox 10 I’ve been collecting data using the bugzilla status flags in an effort to determine what impact our policies and efforts are having on the quality of the… Continue reading
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It’s hard to believe another quarter has come and gone. I’m writing today to reveal the contributions made through QA organized testdays over the last three months. I’m happy to say that the summer was kind to us. We saw an end to the slump in the number of testdays organized (fig. 1) and 11… Continue reading
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By Zac Campbell If you’ve come here looking for the perfect, unbreakable locator, then I’m afraid to tell you that there is no perfect locator. That HTML changes and locators become incompatible are realities of writing automated UI tests. You’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading
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By Zac Campbell Greetings Gaia UI testing blog readers. If you’ve come this far then you’re well aware that Firefox OS’s front end is an HTML operating system. This means that system prompts and dialogs like javascript.alert are written in … Continue reading → Continue reading