In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 37 and 38.
Highlights
After 7 months without a new release we finally were able to release mozdownload 1.12 with a couple of helpful enhancements and fixes.
We released Mozmill 2.0.7 and mozmill-automation 2.0.7 mainly for adding support of the v2 signed Firefox application bundles on OS X. Sadly we quickly had to follow-up with an appropriate 2.0.8 release for both tools, because a let change in the JS Engine caused a complete bustage of Mozmill. More details can be found in my appropriate blog post.
We were even able to finally release Memchaser 0.6, which is fixing a couple of outstanding bugs and brought in the first changes to fully support Australis.
One of our goals was to get the failure rate of Mozmill tests for release and beta candidate builds under 5%. To calculate that Cosmin wrote a little script, which pulls the test report data for a specific build from out dashboard and outputs the failure rate per executed testrun. We were totally happy to see that the failure rate for all Mozmill tests was around 0.027%!
During the merge process for the Firefox 32 release Andrei has seen some test inconsistencies between our named branches in the Mozmill-Tests repository. Some changes were never backported, and only present on the default branch for a very long time. He fixed that and also updated our documentation for branch merges
Something else worth for highlighting is also bug 1046645. Here our Mozmill tests found a case when Firefox does not correctly show the SSL status of a website if you navigate quickly enough. The fix for this regression caused by about:newtab made it even into the release notes
Last but not least Andreea started planning our Automation Training day for Q3. So she wrote a blog post about this event on QMO.
Individual Updates
For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 37 and week 38.
Meeting Details
If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda, the video recording, and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 37 and week 38.