In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 27 and 28.
Highlights
Henrik continued his work on our QA specific PuppetAgain setup. One of the blockers for us was bug 997721, which is the full proxy support on OS X and Linux. By week 27 we were finally able to get this finished. Further Henrik also got the manifest for installing Java done.
On TPS we also made progress. So Cosmin got the Pulse listener script implemented for the Coversheet CI, which triggers TPS tests whenever new nightly builds of Firefox have been made available. Further a couple of fixes for Mozrunner were necessary given that the 6.0 release caused a couple of regressions for TPS. As result we agreed on to pin Python package dependencies to specific versions of mozrunner and related packages.
One big thing for our team is also to assist people in the decision, if automated tests are possible for certain Firefox features. The questions mainly come up for tests, which cannot be implemented for any of our developer driven test frameworks due to limitations on buildbot (no network access allowed, restart of the application, and others…). To be more successful in the future, Henrik started a discussion on the dev-quality mailing list. We hope to get the proposed process established for bug verification.
Individual Updates
For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 27 and week 28.
Meeting Details
If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda, the video recording, and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 27 and week 28.