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Back to the ‘Bug

I’ve actually been back from a brief 2 week hiatus for a couple of weeks now, trying to get my head back in the swing of things. The pace of Firebug development continues unabated. Honza is busy back-porting some Net panel changes from 1.4 to 1.3. We expect a final release of Firebug 1.3 sometime [...]

Weekly Meeting Recap, October 21, 2008

Just a quick blurb about what we covered in this week’s meeting:

Firebug 1.3.0b2 is available on getfirebug.com
Discussed Honza’s awesome improvements to the Net panel
Discussed John Resig’s further efforts on FireUnit and NetUnit integration
Starting to push new code to 1.4 branch, 1.3 for bugfixes and cleanup only.

That’s the short version.
The longer version includes some good [...]

FireUnit – the early years

One of our goals for moving forward with Firebug is to build a system to run automated unit tests for it. Currently, Firebug is modified, packaged and then tested by a small (but enthusiastic!) group of developers. When changes are made to the codebase, the area under development might be tested by the developer, but [...]

Firefox 3 Unittest Architecture

Now that we’re on the verge of shipping Firefox 3 to hundreds of millions of users around the planet, and getting ready to move our development efforts into new territory on a new repository, it’s a good time to talk about the tireless robots that have diligently checked every source change for nearly a year and a half. They’ve worked hard, been yelled at, called names and had tense discussions with developers and IT personnel during that entire period. Some have passed on, retired to the quieter pastures of staging or have been melted down for scrap. A couple of die-hards survived relatively unscathed and are looking forward for more action, their scars worn like badges of honor…

HOWTO: Unit testing Linux

Mozilla’s evangelist and resident all-around-good-guy Chris Blizzard wrote an excellent piece yesterday on the dangers of hand-picking patches in a linux distribution, at least as they pertain to Mozilla and Firefox. I don’t need to say more on that as he covers it pretty well. I will just say that it’s a hard problem and [...]