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QA plans this Quarter
July 11th, 2008 by timr
I need to get better about communicating so here goes.
The QA team has been getting better and better about planning goals and thinking more strategically. This quarter we still have a lot of release testing to do (a lot = understatement!). Here is the current list of planned releases for this quarter:
- FFx 3.0.1
- FFx 3.0.2
- FFx 2.0.0.15
- FFX 2.0.0.16
- FFX 2.0.0.17
- TBird 2.0.0.16
- TBird 2.0.0.17(?)
- FFx Major Update 2.0.0.x -> 3.0.x
- Partner releases for 3.0.1
- FFx 3.1 Alpha
- FFx 3.1 Beta 1 (?)
- SpiderMonkey (JavaScript) 1.7
- SpiderMonkey 1.8
- QMO Beta
Beyond release testing, we really want to get better at automated testing. Some great efforts here are the develpoment of Gristmill, a lightweight test scripting tool for the Firefox GUI. Once this is done, then the test execution team can automate many test cases in the Litmus web based manual testing tool.
We are also planning a series of brown bag presentations on Gristmill, Mochitest, Reftest, Selenium, and creating simplified test cases for bugs with javascript. These are mainly to raise the understanding of these tools and techniques within the QA team, but also for anyone else that is interested. Hopefully we can record these and publish them on devmo.
Finally, the test execution team will be creating test cases with Gristmill, Mochitest, and Selenium to get more familiar with these tools and start automating our manual tests.
That’s just scratching the surface for what QA is up to for this quarter. I’ll post more soon.