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Mozmill status and goals for 2009

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As a couple of you already know Mozilla QA runs its own set of automated functional tests which are separated from the tests in the automated test suite. The main goal for us is to shorten the test duration for manual functional tests so those tests will be run more often. There are Smoketests, BFT’s (basic functional tests), and FFT (full functional tests) available on Litmus which get partly run by QA during release testing or at any time by contributors. Given the fact that all those tests need aContinue readingMozmill status and goals for 2009

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“Mozmill meets L10n” slides available

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Over the last weekend Mozilla Camp Europe 2009 has been taken place in Prague. About 150 people from l10n, qa, dev, and advocacy were invited to join this conference which Mozilla Europe is organizing each year. Given my project to get manual Litmus tests automated with Mozmill I have prepared some slides with a special focus on l10n. But sadly I wasn’t able to join the conference because of sickness. I have to say a big thanks to my colleague Marcia Knous and also to one of our main contributorsContinue reading“Mozmill meets L10n” slides available

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Mozmill-test repository branched for Firefox 3.5

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In the last weeks we discovered a couple of changes in the upcoming 1.9.2 code base which forced us to branch our mozmill-test repository. At first we weren’t sure if we should create separate repositories for the 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 branches or handle everything through multiple heads in the same repository. We made the decision to use the first way (see bug 509290) which finally ended up as the wrong way due to some limitations of hgweb. Means we had to revert all the changes and are now using namedContinue readingMozmill-test repository branched for Firefox 3.5

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Bugzilla 3.4 released

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Yesterday Bugzilla 3.4 has been released. Given the blog post from Max Kanat-Alexander who is one of the developers on this project, it’s the best version ever. A couple of new stunning features found their way into the new release. I’m really looking forward to see bugzilla.mozilla.org updated so all those will be available for our daily work. I’m really looking forward to some of the new features: Shorter Search URLs – Never annoy people on IRC or in emails anymore with URL’s which takes nearly half the screen. ItContinue readingBugzilla 3.4 released

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Firefox 3.5 has been released

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Huh, I’m still a bit late in blogging this but I don’t wanna miss it because it’s really important… With a bit more then a year development Firefox 3.5 has been officially released 2 days ago. It contains tons of new stunning features like native video support, a private browsing mode, a jitted JavaScript engine, and many more. See the official release notes. For a quick overview you can also watch this video.

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The Website Testing project

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Since I’ve been started to work for Mozilla in January this year I lead and helped out in various projects. One of those projects where I have a leadership I was able to select on my own opinions based on which would be helpful for Mozilla and our great community. As the solution the Website Testing project was born on QMO which I will describe in detail now. Comparing all the different ways we can get in contact with each other or searching for information on the web is definitelyContinue readingThe Website Testing project

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7 Things about me

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Meanwhile I was getting tagged 3 times by good fellows aka Pascal, Simon, and Abdulkadir. Thanks too you all! 😉 Normally I don’t follow such chain letters but lets make it an exception… The Rules: Link back to your original tagger and list the rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself. Tag 7 1 people by leaving name and link to his blog. Let them know they’ve been tagged The seven things you may (or may not) know about me: I was born in the German Democratic Republic.Continue reading7 Things about me

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Minefield @123%

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Apple seems to have some problems with the calculation of the cpu load for processes which really stress the cpu. Just open up several tabs with videos on YouTube and you will see how your cpu load will raise over 100%. Out of curiosity: Does Apple already has a patent in software-overclocking? Update: The activity monitor sums up all the cpu usage for any thread within an existing process. Means, depending on the amount of cpu’s or cores and the amount of threads for that process, the cpu load canContinue readingMinefield @123%

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Getting hired by Mozilla

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Actually this post should have been already written last Monday, but there were too many things going on. But lets start, now! It was an unbelievable Monday. And definitely the best one ever in my life. After 8 years of active contribution to the Mozilla project, I was getting hired by Mozilla. Means, from now on I work as a full-time QA engineer in the QA execution team. And like any other remotely connected office-less person I’m working from home. For now I’m based in Karlsruhe which is located atContinue readingGetting hired by Mozilla

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