Mozilla
Henrik Skupin
The Firefox Automation team would like to announce the release of Mozmill 2.0.7 and Mozmill 2.0.8. Both versions had to be released in such a short time frame to ensure continuing support for Firefox. Some latest changes done for Firefox Nightly broke Mozmill, or at least made it misbehaving. If you run tests with Mozmill […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 29 and 30. Highlights During week 29 it was time again to merge the mozmill-tests branches to support the upcoming release of Firefox 31.0. All necessary work has been handled on bug 1036881, which also included […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
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 […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
I promised to keep up with our updates over the last week but given a major breakage in the freshly released version of Mozmill 2.0.4, I had a full week of work to get the fix out. I promise that during this week I will write reports for the weeks in January. Highlights With the […] Continue reading
Dave Hunt
If you’re not already familiar with the Firefox endurance tests, these are Mozmill tests that repeat a small snippet of user interaction over and over again while gathering metrics. This allows us to detect if there’s a memory leak in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
Given the importance of automation in QA the Automation Development team had a discussion lately how to improve tracking of QA covered automated testcases in Bugzilla. In the past we haven’t had a way to mark code in bugs for new features or regression fixes as being covered by Mozmill automation. As we have agreed […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
Some days ago we noticed that with the Mozmill 1.5.12 release we accidentally dropped the support for Firefox 3.6 or the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. It has been introduced with the fix for the global per compartment issue on bug 751424, especially with the addition of the ‘outer-window-destroyed’ observer notification listener. Given the EOL of Firefox […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
Some changes to our team happened lately I want to quickly talk about before starting to dive into our team goals for this quarter. So what’s going on? Automation is a key part when it comes to qualifying new and existing code. Over the last years it’s getting more and more important at Mozilla for […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
Something we have learned over the weekend was: Never say never. After we have released the 1.5.11 release of Mozmill on April 19th, we were sure to not have to ship any other release off this branch. We want to concentrate our work on Mozmill 2.0 and get it out as soon as possible. But […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
Now, three weeks after Q1 of 2012 has been passed by I finally have the time to give some details about our work happened during the first three months. As usual we set a couple of goals we wanted to see by the end of the quarter. All of them were kinda important so we […] Continue reading