Mozilla
David Clarke
With the sole purpose of making the web a better place and enabling our community to make a difference, we are putting together a new site that is capable of harnessing the tremendous power of the Mozilla community. –Me The portal is to be named “One and Done”, it is to be a place you […]
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Syndicator
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
pragmatic
Mozilla Quality Assurance (QA) would like to build a Taskboard to enable community members to contribute in an area of their interest and feel good about their contribution. The Taskboard would also work well for Mozilla QA’s needs and dovetail … Continue reading
marcia
The etherpad for this week’s team meeting has been posted: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/qa-staff-meeting-q4. Information regarding joining the meeting via Vidyo or phone can be found below: Dial in information: # Every Weds @ 1:30p Pacific Time – Mozilla HQ, Warp Core # … Continue reading
rbillings
Exploratory Testing : SUMO Ask a Question This post is going to cover exploratory testing in the Ask a Question flow inside SUMO, Mozilla’s Support website. You can jump ahead and run this test directly in Moztrap: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/runtests/environment/2511/ The purpose … Continue reading
Syndicator
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
Mihai Morar
Friday, October 11th we held a Firefox 25 beta 6 Testday. Thank you very much for your help. More details about the work done can be found in the etherpad. Many thanks to VarCat, Mayur Patil, Api, lizzard, Aleksej, iamjayakumars, Sekar Sundaram and to all our moderators! … Continue reading
David Clarke
When porting a chrome packaged app to a firefox packaged app you will need to do an inventory as to which chrome specific api’s you are using and create a level of abstraction around them, as the naming / capabilities of the apis vary across the platforms. I will try to break this article into […]
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David Clarke
I saw a question on a thread this week, and decided to spend a few hours to write up the process, as well as provide an example. This bug will cover the general conversion process, but it doesn’t cover all the idiosyncrasies / differences between the two platforms. The example I’m going to use for […]
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David Clarke
On the way back from the Mozilla Summit 2013, I spent the time to read Malcolm Gladwells new book. David and Goliath, underdogs, misfits and the art of battling giants, and I was immediately struck by the similarity between Mozilla and the story of the underdog. The history of the browser has been one of […]
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