Category Archives: QA
Submitting pending crashes…
Ted just made a wonderful new script for us to upload pending folder crashes. It requires poster (ie you will have to run |sudo pip install poster| you run it by |submit.py /path/to/files/*.dmp| The submit.py script is found here : … Continue reading
Example of Session based testing
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830657#c23 30 minutes. Tested a fix. found 7 potential bugs. If you want agile testing… there you go. Now I just have check and verify they aren’t reported already… and file them if they aren’t…
Raising the question:
Per version of the product per run, could you graph the output of how many bugs a test case produces? Reason I ask is how can we tell the effectiveness of a test case, and what are the best test … Continue reading
How to root your Galaxy S to Cynogenmod 10 Nightly…
Disclaimer: there is a chance that you may mess up your phone. I am warning you ahead of time that you are doing this at your own risk and that I might not be able to help you! I didn’t … Continue reading
Logcatting on B2G
If you’re familiar with logcatting with android, it’s the same method… If you’re not, don’t worry… here’s how to go about it! 1. Download the Android SDK : http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html – unzip the sdk, and run android app to add the … Continue reading
More Profile Madness…
So I ran the script several times to create a large profile… but I either ran into a bug w/ fennec or hit a bug with the Android OS. One of the things is that the history is not showing … Continue reading
Script to create 6k worth of history…
Originally I had this:#!/bin/bash # website history generator v 0.01 # # Usage webhistgen <n> <appname> # n: number of websites to visit # appname: application name such as org.mozilla.fennec n=$1; appname=$2; cmdline=”adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -n “$appname”/.App … Continue reading
Screenshots on your android device … without ADB … without another App!
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
More Socorro hotness that’s hot off the press!
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
How you can help improve your bug reports for Fennec…
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
