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Automation Development report – week 47/48 2013

This is again an overview about the highlights of our work in week 47 and 48 this year. Sorry for the delay of a couple of days but some critical work was holding me off from writing this post.

Highlights

Henrik and Dave were working on a couple of Mozmill-CI updates, which have been pushed to production. The first batch of features and bug fixes landed in week 47. It included the monitoring plugin for Jenkins, which hopefully will help us to figure out the reasons of Java crashes. Also we can finally run project branches via our CI now, even it can only be done manually as of now. It is important for our upcoming tests for the Holly branch (Firefox Nightly without the Australis feature). The second batch landed by last week was intended to upgrade our system to Mozmill 2.0.1. Sadly we failed in it due to a couple of other failures, which we haven’t seen before on our staging server. So we partly reverted back the latest commits for production and we all are working hard on getting those issues fixed.

With the detected failures by upgrading to Mozmill 2.0.1, Henrik has noticed that one of those existed because of an incompatibility of mozbase with Python 2.6. See bug 944361 for details. To solve this we upgraded our OS X 10.6 boxes to Python 2.7.3, so all machines are running the same version of Python now. As a very nice side-effect we noticed a speed improvement by running our Mozmill tests of about 25%!

Henrik pushed a couple of releases to pypi, which include mozprofile 0.17 with a lot of add-on manager related bug fixes, mozdownload 1.10 (see details), and mozmill 2.0.1 (see details)

To be prepared for executing the first Metro tests with Mozmill we had to prepare the mozmill-tests repository for handling multiple applications. Therefore Andreea refactored nearly the whole repository. You can find details on bug 927397.

Individual Updates

For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 47 and week 48.

Meeting Details

If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda and notes from the last two Automation Development meetings of week 47 and week 48.

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