QA/Platform/DOM

About the Team

People

• Manager: Andrew Overholt (overholt)
• Engineers: Ehsan Akhgari (ehsan), Anne van Kesteren (annevk), Josh Matthews (jdm), Ben Turner (bent), Boris Zbarsky (bz)
• QA: Anthony Hughes (ashughes)

How to Contact Us

• Real-time chat takes place on the #content channel on irc.mozilla.org
• Discussions take place on the dev-platform mailing list.

Meetings

We do not generally hold team meetings at this time.

Getting Involved

See our Participate page to get a list of projects seeking volunteers.

Strategy

This page documents the QA strategy for testing Mozilla's DOM implementation. Our primary objective is the continuous improvement of DOM quality through two-week sprints of open, transparent, and data-driven qualification processes.

Documentation

Guides:

• DOM Developer Guide
• How to install Mercurial
• How to build Firefox
• How to run the web platform tests
• Helping DOM QA

Reference:

• DOM APIs
• WebAPI wiki page
• Feature Roadmap
• Feature Testplan Template

Current Initiatives

• improve work flow of incoming and outgoing bugs
• improve test coverage in the web platform tests
• improve test coverage of in-product features prior to shipping in a Firefox release
• improving accessibility to participating in team activities

Bugs

Triage

Triage is the process of going through a list of bugs to identify and prioritize bugs for testing.

Queries

• Top crashes to make sure bugs are assigned and on track
• Regressions to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Unconfirmed bugs to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Intermittent failures to find bugs needing QA investigation
• Resolved bugs to find bugs needing better test coverage or manual verification

Backlog

• Requests for investigation
• Requests for verification
• Requests for automation

Top Crashes

<bugzilla> {

"product":"core",
"f1":"component",
"o1":"casesubstring",
"v1":"DOM",
"f3":"component",
"o3":"nowordssubstr",
"v3":"Content, CSS",
"keywords":"topcrash", 
"resolution":"---"

} </bugzilla>

Crashes

<bugzilla> {

"product":"core",
"f1":"component",
"o1":"casesubstring",
"v1":"DOM",
"f3":"component",
"o3":"nowordssubstr",
"v3":"Content, CSS",
"keywords":"crash", 
"resolution":"---"

} </bugzilla>

Regressions

<bugzilla> {

"product":"core",
"f1":"component",
"o1":"casesubstring",
"v1":"DOM",
"f2":"component",
"o2":"nowordssubstr",
"v2":"Content, CSS",
"f3":"cf_qa_whiteboard",
"o3":"nowordssubstr",
"v3":"triage",
"keywords":"regressionwindow-wanted",
"resolution":"---"

} </bugzilla>

Recent Reports

<bugzilla> {

"product":"core",
"f1":"component",
"o1":"casesubstring",
"v1":"DOM",
"f2":"component",
"o2":"nowordssubstr",
"v2":"Content, CSS",
"f3":"op_sys",
"o3":"nowordssubstr",
"v3":"Gonk",
"chfield":"[Bug creation]",
"chfieldto":"Now",
"chfieldfrom":"-1m",
"status":"UNCONFIRMED"

} </bugzilla>

Stale Reports

<bugzilla> {

"product":"core",
"f1":"component",
"o1":"casesubstring",
"v1":"DOM",
"f3":"component",
"o3":"nowordssubstr",
"v3":"Content, CSS",
"f2":"days_elapsed",
"o2":"greaterthan",
"v2":"365",
"status":"UNCONFIRMED"

} </bugzilla>

Features

Roadmap / Trello / Template

Feature	Target Milestone	Assignee	Tracking Bug	Development	Testing
Screen Orientation API	Firefox 40 (August 11, 2015)	William Chen [:wchen]	bug 1043102	IN PROGRESS
Service Workers	Firefox 39 (June 30, 2015)	Nikhil Marathe [:nsm]	bug 903441	IN PROGRESS
IndexedDB/SQLite Performance	Firefox 39 (June 30, 2015)	Ben Turner [:bent]	several	DONE	DONE
Picture Tag (use cases)	Firefox 38 (May 12, 2015)	John Schoenick [:johns]	bug 870022	DONE	DONE
BroadcastChannel API	Firefox 38 (May 12, 2015)	Andrea Marchesini [:baku]	bug 966439	DONE	DONE
IndexedDB in Workers	Firefox 37 (March 31, 2015)	Ben Turner [:bent]	bug 701634	DONE	DONE
Web Sockets in Workers	Firefox 37 (March 31, 2015)	Andrea Marchesini [:baku]	bug 504553	DONE	DONE