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Results of the second Add-ons Manager testday

Henrik Skupin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:06:26 +0000

Last Friday, June the 11th, we had our second testday for exploratory testing the new Add-ons Manager. It was again well attended and we had a couple of fantastic discussions across its whole duration. If you weren’t able to attend but interested in details about the discussions, you can read through the chat transcription which lists any specific detail.

Given our last testday end of April, I have continued my idea to see the testday covering more than only the PDT timezone. That means this time it has also been started 8am UTC and ended 5pm PDT. At the beginning we had lesser action but after lunch time in Europe more and more people joined and participated in discussions. The most active people in the channel were aaronmt, aleksej, dark_skeleton, gabe2300, kbrosnan, kinger, mossop, smaug, tchung, tobbi, tonymec, unfocused, wx24, and myself.

After all we were able to identify 11 new bugs which is much lesser than the last time. But I think it speaks for the work which happened in that area the last one and a half month.

We thank everyone who has participated in that testday and made it a success again. Now with the new themes approaching in the near future, another testday has to be targeted. Stay tuned and check for updates regularly.

Testday for creating Mozmill Tests for Add-ons

Henrik Skupin — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:46:18 +0000

Mozmill is not only able to execute functional and unit tests against applications, which are build on top of the Gecko platform, but can also be used to run those type of tests against extensions.

If you are an extension author and interested to see your extension tested in a daily fashion by our automated test-runs in the QA-lab, you should definitely join the testday on Friday, May 28th. We really want to encourage you to think about the implementation of automated functional tests for your own extension. And it’s not only helpful for the extension itself, but can also help us to identify regression in the Firefox development cycle as early as possible.

To have an introduction available, we were working closely together with Google to have example tests in our mozmill-tests repository. Learn how Mozmill tests will be written and how they can be run in Firefox. The Mozmill team will be around the whole day to assist you wherever possible.

If you are interested in the testday, you should read through the following documentation about the creation of testscripts for extensions.

You can also attend when you have general questions about Mozmill or when you want to help in fixing or creating Mozmill tests for Firefox. Get ready and join us in #testday next Friday.

Testday for Testscripting your Add-on with MozMill

Henrik Skupin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:26:57 +0000

Mozmill, which is a framework for running functional tests, can be used for any application which is built on top of the Mozilla platform. This includes Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and many others. But it’s not only possible to test the application itself. Instead it can also be used to run any type of functional tests for installed add-ons.

To stimulate add-on authors to create their own Mozmill tests, Mozilla QA is holding a testday on Friday, March 5th, which is fully devoted to Mozmill testscripting for your add-on. Learn how Mozmill tests will be written and how they can be run in Firefox. The Mozmill team will be around the whole day to assist you wherever possible.

If you are interested in the testday, you should read through the following documentation about the creation of testscripts for extensions.

You can also attend, when you have general questions about Mozmill or when you want to help in creating Mozmill tests for Firefox. Get ready and join us in #testday next Friday.