Tag Archives: Mozilla

Rocking the New Year

Posted by on 01.05.2012 No comments

This past year on the Mozilla Web Team, 2011, was an incredibly fortuitous and ambitious adventure that finished off with excellent fireworks.  I’m currently a QA lead on 4 projects but two of them accomplished something special in the final days of the year.  Not too long ago Mozilla launched BrowserID; a secure, single sign on service that doesn’t have the privacy concerns associated with similar services (Google, Facebook, etc).

A year-end goal was to integrate BrowserID into two of our web properties without floundering on quality. I’m happy to write that both affiliates.mozilla.org (currently /en-US/ only) and mozillians.org landed BrowserID. The teams on both projects worked really hard to make this happen during an already full time of the year.

From the QA front this would not have been possible without help from the broader Mozilla community.  A large portion of our user base actively dove into the mud of Bugzilla and filed bugs. In addition to receiving feedback from our users a particular individual introduced himself and offered to help out.

I wanted to give a special thank you to Rajeev Bharshetty [:rshetty] for spending a significant amount of time during his winter holiday from school.  He did a truly staggering amount of exploratory and release testing. The level of quality of both releases and the teams understanding of the underlying risks was greatly effected by him.

 

rshetty

:rshetty

 

I look forward to 2012 and seeing what types of testing mischief we can get into.  The Mozilla QA community is going to get rocked to its core this year. There are some very curious ideas in the pipeline. This next year we’ll see broader exploration into enabling community collaboration and engagement mechanisms on our projects. Individuals like Rajeev will no doubt help define the future test strategies.

If you find yourself reading this post and would like to get involved on an open source project, pop into our irc channel at irc.mozilla.org#mozwebqa and say hello. We’re a friendly lot of mostly non-grumpy testers :-)

 

WebQA: No test day this week

Posted by on 09.08.2011 No comments

Hello all,

A late update for tomorrows WebQA hosted test day, Friday 9.9.11.  WebQA won’t be hosting a test day this week. I had planned on a day of working to expand the Selenium coverage on Socorro (aka Breakpad … aka Crashstats).  Of the many reasons I can think of it mainly comes down to I’ve been overrun with work and can’t sustainably host this tomorrow.  This is not to say that the backlog of tests to be automated is small, in fact with the help of Tobias Markus (our wonderful intern) it has ceaselessly grown as he’s dug through the existing testcases during his gap analysis.

I’m absolutely encouraged by the amount of interesting testcases that could use automation and look forward to having a formal testing day arranged for this project soon.

Project links

I look forward to seeing you at future test days and on the irc channels. Feel free to pop in at anytime and say hello.

 

Join us for a testing talk with Lanette Creamer on June 14

Posted by on 06.10.2011 No comments
Lanette Creamer
Mozilla will be hosting a talk by Lanette Creamer, aka, The Testy Redhead on June 14 at 12:00pm which is open to the public and will be streamed live on air.mozilla.com.

Lanette will be speaking about testing for the user experience with workflow testing:

Customers who are so delighted with a product or service that they will tell others are a magnificent asset which every company wishes to retain and attract. While we have many ways to test for code stability, features, and functionality, there are not as many test methodologies that explore reporting on the overall user experience.

Workflow testing is the practical approach that we have applied to testing collaboratively for the user experience. Workflow testing methodology scales from a use case all the way to testing across the Adobe Creative Suite Master Collections. Having an efficient way to holistically report the user experience is an effective way to improve overall product quality. This is especially true in multi-user scenarios which span many features, different applications, and a myriad of operating systems.

In this talk we will share what happened at Adobe, how the same methods used for encouraging collaboration at Adobe were recently modified to work in an old fashioned IT department and also for helping two adult cats adopted from a shelter to get along with a very feisty and ancient resident cat.

Lanette  likes testing even more than Diet Coke and cats. After working for a
decade at Adobe, including leading testing on the Creative Suites,
Lanette has jumped into consulting with both feet. She recently started her own consulting firm, Spark Quality LLC. Throughout her testing career, Lanette has been publicly evangelizing advancement in human test ideas. Deeply passionate about collaboration, she believes it is a powerful solution when facing complex technical challenges.

She has presented at PNSQC, Better Software/Agile Development Practices,
Writing About Testing 1, and STPCon in 2010. In 2011, she presented at
Writing About Testing 2, and looks forward to speaking at CAST in her
home city of Seattle. An active participant in the testing community,
Lanette has written technical papers, and articles for ST&QA Magazine,
and Tea Time for Testers.

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