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Posts Tagged Quality

Firebug Testday Results

Thanks to everybody who showed up last Friday and ran some Firebug tests for us. It was a decent turn-out and you helped us catch some bugs. Over the course of the day, we filed around 16 bugs, 1 of which was deemed invalid (Other Component, Weave), and 8 of those remaining were fixed since [...]


Firebug Testday, Friday, May 8th, 2009

Join us in #testday on irc.mozilla.org and help test out the latest version of Firebug 1.4. If you’re a web developer, a browser power user or just bored and looking for a place to hang out on a Friday (between 8am and 4pm PST), grab the latest version at http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.4. (currently 1.4a25) Our goal is [...]


Hello and Welcome

After a year of me slugging away at buildbot-related stuff, I’ve finally got some serious help. Chris Cooper (aka Coop, not to be confused with The Coop) has been digging into the buildbot setups and machinery running the unittest boxes and is helping out with the performance stuff. He’s been able to make sense of [...]


qm-centos5-01 a little orange

I mentioned earlier today that I was bringing up a new machine for Great Justice. The sparky new qm-centos5-01 sporting a new Reference Platform VM. Well, it turns out there’s enough of a difference in the base libraries that a number of tests are failing out of the gate. Ted M. noted that 3 of [...]


Please welcome…

While the tree is closed for some network storage tests, I took the opportunity to insert a new member into the unit testing family. Please give qm-centos5-01 dep unit test a warm welcome. With his arrival, I hope we can get a newer Cairo installed and working and if we’re really lucky, passing tests. Don’t [...]


One more thing…

The Mac unit test machine, qm-xserve01 is currently set on a rapid-cycling debug mode in an attempt to catch a stack trace on exit. Feel free to take a look through the logs and fix any assertions you see there.


Rhymes with Orange

Alternatively, “what’s that smell?” There has been an awful lot of orange on the Windows 2003 and OS X unit test boxes lately. Mostly due to shut-down errors. If you see one of these boxes turn orange after a checkin, but no obvious failures in the suites (pass/fail/todo in mochitest and reftest), it’s likely because [...]


ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS

The new box is all set up and chugging along happily. WINNT 5.2 qm-win2k3-01 dep unit test landed yesterday around 12:38 in a sea of burning fire. The new machine is now reporting to the Firefox tree on Tinderbox. But what does this mean to you, Dear Developer? I’m glad you asked. The new machine [...]


New ‘Bots Coming

I’m just putting the finishing touches on a new machine that will eventually replace the qm-winxp01 unit test vm running on the Firefox Tinderbox Tree. The new machine will be called qm-win2k3-01 dep unit test and will have some beefier hardware behind it. Hopefully reducing cycle times and providing a better platform for some of the [...]


(left) Justified and Ancient

(with apologies to the KLF…) I saw this note on Schrep’s blog this afternoon and remembered, that last week was actually kind of a milestone for me. With dbaron‘s help. I made my way onto a 4-digit bug – the venerable #3247 – counters in css-generated content. David Baron wrote the original tests (which you [...]


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