Henrik Skupin on January 29th, 2010

Starting today the Mozilla QA lab has it’s own automated Mozmill test-run in place which gets executed once a day. That means I do not have to run those tests manually anymore and we also have public available results which will give us more exposure regarding failed tests. Really, it’s a great step forward for [...]

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Henrik Skupin on January 25th, 2010

The new version of Mozmill brings some under the hood changes to the Python back-end.
The patch on Bug 533227 adds report support for restart tests which can push results to a couchdb instance now. With Mozmill 1.3 only normal Mozmill tests had that capability.
Further we have improved the handling of Python callbacks from within Mozmill [...]

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Henrik Skupin on January 22nd, 2010

Yesterday, the Mozilla Corporation has been released the brand new Firefox 3.6 which is the successor of Firefox 3.5 and has a couple of interesting new features and speed enhancements aboard. Let’s have a quick look at the release notes and checkout what makes it a shiny and brilliant new version:

With the Lightweight Themes support [...]

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Henrik Skupin on December 28th, 2009

Even when having an ISDN phone connection at home you will be able to send a fax. There is no analog connection needed. The only requirement is an installed Fritz!Box Fon from AVM which acts as your telephone system. Via its configuration web interface you can already specify a number to receive faxes. But also [...]

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Henrik Skupin on November 23rd, 2009

Given the quick review on AMO (many thanks to you guys that this happened under a week!) the Mozmill team can call out that Mozmill 1.3 has been released. It’s available for download on addons.mozilla.com.
This release is a big step forward by adding a couple of new features and fixing some important bugs which have [...]

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Henrik Skupin on November 18th, 2009

Release testing which has to be done by QA right before a new release of Firefox will be offered to our users is still an area where lot of manual work is involved. That means we run Smoketests and the Basic Functional Tests (BFT’s) against the build candidate. As I have already written there is [...]

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Henrik Skupin on November 7th, 2009

Nearly 3 month after we have released Mozmill 1.2 we are close to our next release of Mozmill. Lots of bugs have been fixed and even a couple of new features were implemented. A nearly complete list you can find on Bugzilla.
Everyone who is using Mozmill regularly is welcome to help us in testing the [...]

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Henrik Skupin on November 4th, 2009

Working on two or even more machines in parallel would require a KVM switch or just a neat software like Teleport which lets you share your keyboard and mouse simply over the network. One big advantage against Synergy is that this solution comes as a prefpane and embeds the configuration UI and the backend within [...]

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Henrik Skupin on October 21st, 2009

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 [...]

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Henrik Skupin on October 6th, 2009

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 [...]

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