Mozilla Calendar Project Blog Its about time for some news…

We are getting started early in 2007 with our drive toward the release of Sunbird and Lightning. To do that, we’re throwing a test day on January 2nd. We will be testing remote calendaring again, because there is so much to test in that area. We have endeavored to make this testing as easy as possible for people, and we have provided a few servers that you can use (so you don’t have to set up your own).

We wish you a happy new year, and we can’t think of a better way to kick off 2007 than spending a few hours working with your favorite calendar project. We hope to see you on January 2nd.

For dates, times, details, and all of that, please turn to our ever faithful wiki page: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Current_QA_TestDay

— Calendar QA Team

Congratulations to everyone on a very successful test day. Here is a quick snapshot of the results:

We ran a complete regression on both Sunbird and Lightning, ensuring that the recent database patch did not have any unintended side effects. We were also able to focus testing energy on the new prototype dialogs that the Sun team has been implementing. I’d like to thank everyone who was involved for their continued (and new) contributions: xFallenAngel, Sebo, Ulf, Andreas, Nightrat, Ssitter, Koenh, Matthaeus123, Fopper, Nor123, Soupes, Mechtilde, Mschroeder, Celina63, Dmose, Jminta, Lilmatt, Sandos.

We also held a mini-test day on December 1st with 22 students from Seneca College in Toronto. In a whirl-wind effort, they confirmed 16 unconfirmed bugs and filed 6 defects in 45 minutes! We are looking forward to working with the Seneca students again next semester.

Our next test day will be December 19. We will dedicate this day to testing the various types of remote calendars that Sunbird and Lightning can use: FTP, CalDav, WebDav, WCAP. As a holiday gift to the entire community, a new remote calendar provider might be available for testing on the 19th. You can either stay tuned for more information on that, or you can get a sneak peak by volunteering to aid with the preliminary smoke-testing of the new provider (assuming it lands). To volunteer, just drop by the #calendar-qa channel.

Thank you very much for the excellent test day on the 5th. We could not do it without you.

See you on the 19th.

— Calendar QA Team

You have probably heard by now that several of Sun’s OpenOffice team are helping with the Sunbird/Lightning effort. What have they been doing, exactly? Well, come to this test day and find out. We will be testing the new event dialog user interfaces and free/busy support that the Sun folks have been primarily responsible for. We should also be able to do some testing against the Sun Java calendar server (WCAP). Join us as we delve into this brand new functionality. We need lots of eyes, not only do we want to find defects, but we also want to ensure that the new interfaces are clear, intuitive and user friendly.

The Test Day wiki page will be landing today in its normal location.

Remember you can always find ways to help out by checking out our Calendar QA ToDo List

We look forward to seeing you on December 5th.

— Calendar QA Team

On November 14th, we had a very successful test day. We ran 179 Litmus test cases, we pounded the new Migration wizard functionality and we beta tested our new Testday bot, calbot.

Thanks very much to everyone that helped out, especially Matthaeus123 who ran 173 of those Litmus testcases! Thanks also to everyone that wrestled with the migration wizard code: Sebo, Ssitter, Koen, Unlogic, Nor123, Celina63, Jminta, Lilmatt, Mc, Mat75, and Matthaeus123. Thanks also to xFallenAngel for his calbot bot.

We found several issues in the migration wizard code, and even rebuilt the patch to fix dead-broke issues halfway through the test day. Next time we have a test day focused on brand new functionality, we will ensure the functionality is smoke-tested prior to the test day. We are also going to change the times for the test day so that the day better corresponds to when the nightly builds run. This should help clear some confusion surrounding “which build do I test with”. Thanks again to everyone that participated. We’re going to take a week off from test days, so we can make these changes. Our next test day will be December 5th. We’ll see you on the 5th!

Happy Testing.

The calendar developers are working hard toward the next Lightning/Sunbird release, landing several new features in recent weeks. These features include a migration wizard (automatically imports calendar data from Apple iCAL and Gnome Evolution!), improved printing capabilities, and improved ability to handle third-party application timezone definitions.

The Calendar-QA team plans to celebrate these new features with an entire test day focused specifically on the new functionality, and we’d love for you to join us. The test day will be on November 14, from 01:00 (UTC) to November 15, 00:00 (UTC), that’s 23 full hours of testing. For this test day, we will be returning to our Litmus Testing System, so it will be very easy for everyone to contribute. Please refer to the test day wiki for more information.

Additionally, the Calendar-QA team has already begun planning for our next test day. If you’d like to help out with that effort, please drop by the #calendar-qa (irc://irc.mozilla.org#calendar-qa) channel this week and let us know.

We hope to see you in #calendar-qa on November 14th.

Join us for a our regular biweekly calendar test day on Tuesday October 31st. It’s Halloween, so we’ll be venturing down into the dark, spider-webbed dungeons of bugzilla and confirming the unconfirmed bugs that lurk in the shadows.

Seriously, we will be working to confirm as many unconfirmed calendar bugs as we can. There are actually quite a few of them just since 0.3a2 was released. Clearing these out will help us free some time so that we can concentrate on the new functionality that will be landing soon.

We’re really going to need some help on this test day, given the number of bugs we need to confirm. So, if you can publicize our test day, please do. This test day, like all of them, is open to everyone. You don’t need any special bugzilla permissions to participate, and we’re happy to aid folks unfamiliar to the Mozilla system.

For more information on the test day, please see: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Current_QA_TestDay

Thanks very much for your help

Thanks to everyone that participated in our Calendar Interoperability Test Day last week. We had a good turnout, and we were able to test Lightning and Sunbird against 8 other calendar systems. We found nine bugs in Lightning and Sunbird as a result of our testing, and we verified several existing bugs. Special thanks go to Sebo for setting up the test day wiki page, to all our participants, and to Linpro AS for sponsoring our Test Day prizes.

Thanks to everyone that participated: sandos, tering tuby, sopues, dmose, j9, xFallenAngel, julie, Lisa, worzel, Mc, mat75, Sidney, Damian, sebo, woodturner, hamm, unlogic, celina63, thebofh, fopper, Andreas, ssitter, zach, jminta, lilmatt, bbbrowning.
We tested Lightning and Sunbird with:

• Apple iCAL
• Evolution
• KOrganizer
• Google Calendar
• Trumba
• The new Google Calendar Provider by our own xFallenAngel (not technically a third party product)
• Novell Groupwise 7
• Microsoft Outlook 2003

The winners of our test day were Sidney and Worzel! Congratulations!
Our next test day will be October 31st. See you then.

All the third-party application names are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their owning companies.

In light of the recent 0.3 release, we’ve seen quite a few bugs coming
through as people try to load data into Lightning and Sunbird from their
favorite clients. We’re going to have an entire test day focused on
interoperability testing on Tuesday. Among other things, this means:

Testing For Lightning:

• Test receiving email invitations from other clients and adding them
  to a Lightning calendar

• Test importing and exporting Lightning calendars to/from other
  calendar applications

• Test how Sunbird works with published calendars that were generated
  from other applications

• Test how Lightning works with WCAP data from Sun WCAP servers
  (requires Lightning WCAP extension)

• Are there other interoperability tests you can dream up for Lightning?

Testing For Sunbird:

• Test importing and exporting Sunbird calendars to/from other calendar
  applications

• Test how Sunbird works with published calendars that were generated
  from other applications

• Are there other interoperability tests you can dream up for Sunbird?

Since we need the ability to test against as many other calendar
applications and calendar servers as possible, we need your help.

Each of us has access to certain clients that others may not have access
to. So, any test you can think up that measures the interoperability of
your specific calendar servers and clients with Sunbird/Lightning will
be appreciated.

Once again, our friends at Linpro AS (http://www.linpro.no) will be
sponsoring the prizes for this test day.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa on Tuesday, October 17. For more
information on the test day, please see:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Current_QA_TestDay

Thanks for the help!