{"id":258,"date":"2014-09-02T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webqa\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-09-02T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T21:10:37","slug":"web-qa-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/2014\/09\/02\/web-qa-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Web QA team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The role of Mozilla\u2019s Web QA team is to ensure the quality of our web applications across a variety of platforms and browsers.\u00a0 We work on a wide variety of projects, aiming for high quality and timely releases of our user facing sites.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-44378\" src=\"http:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/qmo_content\/uploads\/webqa-team2-690x401.jpg\" alt=\"Your Friendly Neighbourhood Web QA Team\" width=\"420\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Get Involved<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">The Web QA team would love to have you as a contributor!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Meet us<\/h2>\n<p>See our upcoming events and meetings on our <a title=\"Web QA public calendar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=mozilla.com_64nkbr62dja855ojmsnji28278%40group.calendar.google.com\">public calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"http:\/\/widget.mibbit.com\/?settings=1b10107157e79b08f2bf99a11f521973&amp;server=irc.mozilla.org&amp;channel=%23mozwebqa\">#mozwebqa on irc.mozilla.org<\/a>, say hi, and let us know you\u2019re there to help. You can also send us an email at<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"mailto:mozwebqa@mozilla.org\">mozwebqa@mozilla.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Quick Start<\/h2>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/oneanddone.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?search=&amp;team=6\">the Web QA team\u2019s tasks<\/a>\u00a0on One and Done. It\u2019s a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to figure out how to help? Check out our\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Execution\/Web_Testing\/Contributor_levels\">Contributor Levels document<\/a>. It tells you all the things you can do to participate in Web QA &amp; to be part of our community.\u00a0Most tasks fall into the categories of Manual Testing and Automated Testing.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Earn a badge<\/h2>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/badges.mozilla.org\/en-US\/profiles\/profile\/webqa.badges\">the Web QA team badges<\/a>. Instructions on how to earn them are listed on each badge. \u00a0Run some\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/oneanddone.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?search=&amp;team=6\">One and Done<\/a>\u00a0tasks and earn the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/badges.mozilla.org\/en-US\/badges\/badge\/Web-QA-Enthusiast\">Web QA Enthusiast badge<\/a>. Run some\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/running-webqa-automated-tests\/\">automation locally<\/a>\u00a0and ear the first\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/badges.mozilla.org\/en-US\/badges\/badge\/Running--Web-QA-Automation\">Automation badge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Manual\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Manual Testing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Web QA tasks that need help are listed on One and Done:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/oneanddone.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?search=&amp;team=6\">https:\/\/oneanddone.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?search=&amp;team=6<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here is a list of links to start Manual testing on our projects:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/projects\/\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/projects\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New to testing? The best place to start is exploratory testing. Here\u2019s how to do it:<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2012\/11\/exploratory-testing-on-moztrap-job-board-posting-1\/\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/2012\/11\/exploratory-testing-on-moztrap-job-board-posting-1\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Automated\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Automated Testing<\/h2>\n<p>Our automated tests use\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"http:\/\/seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\">Python<\/a>. If you are familiar with either of them we can use your help, and helping us is a great way to learn more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting up automation to run locally is the first step:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/running-webqa-automated-tests\/\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/running-webqa-automated-tests\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read our Automation documentation to get more info:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/automation\/\">https:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/docs\/webqa\/automation\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out our list of GitHub Issues for all of our Web QA project repos:<br \/>\n<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.github.io\/mozwebqa-dashboard\/#\/issues\">http:\/\/mozilla.github.io\/mozwebqa-dashboard\/#\/issues<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"color: #2a7e00\">Talk to Us!<\/h2>\n<p>We would love to hear from you. Here are various ways of reaching and\/or finding out more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"color: #333333\">IRC:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"http:\/\/widget.mibbit.com\/?settings=1b10107157e79b08f2bf99a11f521973&amp;server=irc.mozilla.org&amp;channel=%23mozwebqa\">#mozwebqa on irc.mozilla.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #333333\">Email:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"mailto:mozwebqa@mozilla.org\">mozwebqa@mozilla.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #333333\">Team Wiki:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Execution\/Web_Testing\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Execution\/Web_Testing<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #333333\">Join our Mailing list:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/mozwebqa\">mozwebqa<\/a>Contributor Corner:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #e3720e\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Execution\/Web_Testing\/Contributor_Corner\">Our list of fantastic team contributors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The role of Mozilla\u2019s Web QA team is to ensure the quality of our web applications across a variety of platforms and browsers.\u00a0 We work on a wide variety of &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/2014\/09\/02\/web-qa-team\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614],"tags":[25209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/fxtesteng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}