Mozilla
Anthony Hughes
Some months ago, the Mozilla QA Desktop Automation team started using Pivotal Tracker to manage the mozmill-tests project. We had a broad vision that this would improve the project management, make it more visible to the public, and enable us to grow the project. Over this time we have been largely ineffective in delivering on […] Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Greetings fellow testers! Welcome to another edition of the About:Quality Newsletter. There’s been a lot of activity recently so let’s get into it! Desktop Firefox After much testing, and some weekends worked, we were able to ship Firefox 8.0.1 and … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Good Day Mozilla QA Community, Mary Colvig, of the Contributor Engagement team, has come up with a survey to get your feedback about contributing to Mozilla. In Mary’s words, “feedback and perspective is *critical* in our overall audit of the … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Last month I launched a survey to help QA understand more about our community. To date, I’ve received 15 responses from the nearly 40 attendees. We will continue to run the survey through to the end of the year, however … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Well that went fast; what a wild quarter. The Mozilla train just keeps moving and seems to be ever accelerating. As we barrel down the track, it’s time for me to look back at my successes and failures missed opportunities of the last three months. Desktop Firefox Desktop Firefox saw several releases: Firefox 6, 7, […] Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Last week, QA followed up the Mozilla All-hands with a week of our own to collaborate. One of the most dramatic observations noted during the week of the All-hands is that Mozilla has grown considerably this year. More employees attended … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Greetings QA Community! I just want to remind everyone that tomorrow we will be having a testday to address memory leaks in Firefox. As an added bonus, Justin Lebar (Firefox developer) has provided us with some demonstration videos about the … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Greetings Community! We recently rolled out a new survey to help us learn how you are discovering testdays and what you get out of them. If you have participated in a testday recently, please take a few moments to share … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Last Friday we had a testday where we had the community go through a query of 120+ UNCONFIRMED bugs which were requesting QA-WANTED. These are bugs which typically need steps to reproduce, a minimized testcase, or a regression window. Thanks … Continue reading
Anthony Hughes
Automation We started working closely with a number of other QA teams on the Open Web Apps initiative to make sure we understand what is needed to start automation prototyping and generate test plans. In the meantime, we have set … Continue reading