Category Archives: Planet

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Screenshots on your android device … without ADB … without another App!

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

In my quest to make life easier for Eng people and the end users… I came across an interesting thing when I was looking at the /system/bin directory of ICS (side note: adb shell points to files in /system/bin) …. … Continue reading →

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More Socorro hotness that’s hot off the press!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

So one may ask… what am I looking at here?  It’s just Socorro stuff right?  Oh … it’s hotness.  This is a picture of a URL listing of a particular crash.  All URLs listed in a particular crash if you … Continue reading →

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How you can help improve your bug reports for Fennec…

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Logs and screenshots really help when looking at bugs for developers as well as QA.  There are free apps out there that will do these things. For logs, there is an app called alogcat ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat&hl=en ) that will allow you … Continue reading →

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Startup tests with Fennec

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

ctalbert just posted a new dashboard for s1/s2 tests:  http://mrcote.info/phonedash/#/ What is s1/s2 testing?  It’s basically a startup testing for trying to measure throbber start/stop, and drawing end times.  Manual run instructions can be found here : https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fennec-perf-ts-take2  ( Side … Continue reading →

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If you’re looking for a way to purpose OOM fennec

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

See this link : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731333#c7 Blassey made a tool to specifically OOM fennec.

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Startup Crash indicator

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

For those that don’t look at Socorro too often, there’s a new icon that shows you if there’s a startup crash. The indicator is circled in red. Basically if a crash signature has an uptime of less than 1 minute … Continue reading →

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Crash Reports other than Socorro

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

There are other crash reports other than Socorro that are being generated. Thanks to kairo and chofmann; there are other ways to look at the data that is provided by Socorro. Kairo has made an adjustment asked by the crashkill … Continue reading →

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To me, QA is about reporting what the current behavior of the application is, for better or worse.  This means reporting what works and what does not work. Overall testing means to check every button to make sure that the … Continue reading →

Posted on March 12, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Let’s talk about mobile crashes a moment…

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

So there’s 4 types of crashes within the Fennec Native world right now. 1) Crashes that occur due to the Native UI which is caught by breakpad 2) Crashes that are caught by breakpad 3) Crashes that are caught by … Continue reading →

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Mobile Newsletter – Week of February 3rd, 2012

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

Hello, Firefox Mobile testers! Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out!  Thanks for helping out; your input is greatly appreciated! What’s New in Fennec Native … Continue reading →

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