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Posted 2 weeks ago at 11:32. 0 comments
I’ve added the notes from the Litmus/QAC session directly to the Session Proposal page.
I wasn’t really planning on giving a session, but I was pleased to see it well attended. It was nice to meet Wayne (whose recently picked up the Thunderbird QA torch from Gary), Henrik who has been very active in Bugzilla as of late, and Emily, who has been doing fantastic work testing for Mozilla while working for Sun China over the last few years.
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Current Tunes: Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World 277 - Anhken - 2008-08-01 | Filed under Firefox, Litmus, Mozilla, QA
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago at 14:20. 4 comments
2 weeks ago, the Litmus servers were updated from RHEL4 to RHEL5. The dry run on the staging install was without incident, but soon after we upgraded the production server, we started receiving complaints about blank pages being served. A quick check of the error logs indicated that the blank pages corresponded to httpd child process segfaults:
[Sat Jun 14 13:39:18 2008] [notice] child pid 31570 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
Normally, this issue would have landed squarely on Mozilla IT’s plate, but they were a little busy last week. Continue Reading…
Current Tunes: Richard Durand and Paul Van Dyk - Essential Mix - 2008-06-14 | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, Software
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 10:53. 1 comment
I’ve spent the last day or so updating the existing Selenium test suite for Litmus in advance of landing the new cloning code for bug 362489.
In the past, testing with Selenium has entailed firing up Firefox 2 because the Selenium IDE had not yet been updated to work with the Firefox 3 betas/release candidates. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find a new version 1.0 beta 2 available for download that has been updated to support Firefox 3. Not a moment too soon either!
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Current Tunes: The Irresistible Force - It's Tomorrow Already | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, QA, Software
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 09:52. 0 comments
It appears there were some issues with the migration last night. Litmus and other services (e.g. Bugzilla) are currently experiencing connection issues. We have top men working on it right now.
UPDATE: we’re back now.
Also, in case people hadn’t noticed, Vlad was nice enough to send me a copy of the tiny dino head he used for his fancy new icons. The Litmus favicon is now sporting it too.
Current Tunes: Beef Wellington - From The One 2 | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 15:54. 0 comments
IT has announced that there will be some brief (~1 hr) Litmus downtime tonight between 8pm-12am PDT as the host VM gets moved to a new storage array. More information can be found in the Scheduled Maintenance newspost.
Current Tunes: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago at 22:35. 0 comments
I’m not even supposed to be here today, but I just had to write a little something about the Firefox 3 Beta 1 test day that we ran last week.
Tomcat says that some of the European tech press picked up our testday announcement, and it certainly showed. Lots of new faces in #testday, and over 1300 test results filed by the community over the course of the day (another 270 if you add results from Mozilla QA staff). This was even more impressive considering that this was the second test day we held last week. In the past we’ve seen an attendance drop-off if we hold events too close together.
People seem genuinely stoked about Firefox 3. Lots of testing remains to be done, so I hope to see a lot of those folks back to help some more. Keep it locked to QMO for details.
Current Tunes: The Orb - Bedouin | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, QA
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago at 12:24. 3 comments
This afternoon I’ll be installing a real SSL certificate for the Litmus web server to address some long-standing privacy concerns. We’ll have a redirect rule in place, so this is mainly just a heads-up so that people aren’t surprised if/when they see the cert dialog appear.
See you soon at https://litmus.mozilla.org/!
Update: the SSL site is up now with nary a cert pop-up to be seen. Nice.
Current Tunes: Sublime - Doin' Time | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago at 11:26. 0 comments
I’m adding my name to the growing list of Mozilla people attending FSOSS 2007 in Toronto at the end of October. I missed out on FSOSS last year, and everyone involved seems to have had a blast. It’s rare to have a relevant conference within VIA1 striking distance of Ottawa, so I’m taking a stab this year.
What will I be doing? Well, first and foremost, the Mozilla QA team has a testday scheduled for the Friday, Oct. 26th with a focus on OS Integration on Vista & Mac, with a secondary focus on Installer testing. Between sessions, I’ll be plugging into testday, and hopefully leading an impromptu remote testday in conjunction with Club Moz @ Seneca. It’s no secret that Seneca has also been a fruitful recruiting ground for us in the past, so I’ll also be chatting with students and generally trying to get people excited about plugging in to the Mozilla community.
Hope to see lots of folks there.
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 15:49. 0 comments
- There will some Litmus downtime tonight starting at 7:30pm PDT as the Litmus server receives a kernel upgrade. Further details are available in moz.dev.planning.
- The Litmus Admin tutorial is now available on the new QMO portal. Thanks to Jay for investing a lot of time and effort to get this site off the ground as the new epicenter of all things related to Mozilla testing. I encourage people to join the forums and participate. There is already a discussion taking place about the various existing out-of-date QA docs that should be pulled into QMO and updated.
- I’ve spent the last few days helping a German group get their own Litmus install up-and-running. Those experiences and gotchas have seeded the Litmus Install FAQ. I encourage others to contribute their own specific experience to this document. It may help save someone else some pain.
Current Tunes: Trespassers William - What Could I Say | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 13:39. 0 comments
Litmus will be offline for a few hours tonight as I land the test run changes. There should probably be an “at long last” in that last sentence, but I’m just happy it’s done.
What are “test runs,” you might ask? Test runs allow the men and women behind the Mozilla QA curtain to direct the community testing effort a little more effectively than we could previously. We do this by creating what we call a “test run,” which in the context of Litmus amounts to a collection of testgroups that need running, a time frame within which those testgroups need to be run (i.e. a deadline), and a set of configurations that need testing.
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Current Tunes: Erick Morillo - Essential Mix - 2002-09-29 | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, QA
