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 the OS but not breakpad

4) Crashes that neither breakpad nor the Android OS catches

In all of these cases, if you run into a crashing bug within fennec having a logcat helps out a lot.  For crashes that happen in Native UI, those java crash stacks do appear in the logcat.  In the other cases, it does help sometimes to see what the logcat is spewing during the time the crash is happening.  So please please please try to use logcat and attach it to the bug.  ( http://aaronmt.com/?p=503 or just as good is downloading alogcat.  Pro tip: To get timestamps use command line : adb logcat -v time )

So let’s go back to point 1.  So if you look at a crash now within Socorro that has a java crash :

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/009e2d28-1fef-4b63-971c-efd782120217

You can see a new field that has the Java Stack!  Yes, thanks to the socorro team and cpeterson, esp lars, and laura.  That is hotness.

Point 2 is a matter of looking at Socorro.

Point 3/4 … if it’s released out in the Android Marketplace, there’s methods of getting the crashes from there.  Otherwise : http://www.jnchen.com/blog/2011/11/updated-gdb#the__comments  I haven’t tried to setup jimdb yet  There’s other methods for nonFennec related apps.  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601503/how-do-i-obtain-crash-data-from-my-android-application

JimDB is probably going to be my second next project to look at leisurely at home.  Currently, I want to finish getting robocop up and running and getting tests in for robocop.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=08945730bbd7b22b

esp jerichod’s message.

Android build
“make -f client.mk build” in mozilla-central
cd ~/src/mozilla-central/objdir-droid/

“make package” in the OBJDIR

run: “adb install -r fennec.apk”
adb shell am start -a org.mozilla.gecko.DEBUG -n org.mozilla.fennec/org.mozilla.fennec.App

AI programming of chess even.  A QA’s job is to find the positive and negative aspects of moving forward with the objective of inserting quality into a product.

Negative points could consider being capture, positive in taking a piece…  the further level of heuristic search the more complex the testing…  The main thing would be mapping the functions of an applications into the heuristic evaluation function appropriately…

I suppose it might help to map it into a state diagram

Hrm.  I could just be rambling.

Go to tinderbox and follow a green tinderbox build to it’s log:

http://shizen008.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/screen-shot-2012-02-09-at-9-48-19-pm/

Then do a find ac_ in the log to jump to the mozconfig for fennec.

http://shizen008.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/screen-shot-2012-02-09-at-9-48-33-pm/

Official build is using ndk r5c but you can use ndk 6… just have to make sure you have the right corresponding directories.

log

Green Tinderbox build

His claim was that if you want to completely own a company, use all of your own money.  (Which is quite the different story that I hear from in most of the sf bay area.)  Another thing he mentioned is that once you get above a certain number of people, the time that people spend in meetings just to get in sync grows.  I think he said something like 20 or so?  or maybe it was 200?  I think 20 was right though.  The more people on a project, the more meetings.  Meetings cost time and if you think in terms of man hours … then it’s the number of people in the meeting multiplied by the time.  That’s how much it costs in terms of productivity.  But that’s not quite right either.  It also costs people the overhead of start/stop/context switch time, the time of waiting for people to join in, the time to set up any other provisions, the time it takes to get there…

I think in some sense this blog explains it better:

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html 

It’s a good read.

This doesn’t mean that I don’t/won’t attend meetings… meetings are important in order to get synced, and to sync people up.  I just hope that people gain awareness of how much meetings costs and the cost/benefit ratio.  ie Short meetings are wonderful, but if it’s not really necessary, why have them?  Can they be resolved in 1 on 1 or email or some other means? Can meetings be combined? etc. etc.  I think most people in Mozilla understand this concept as I saw some meetings have been combined, and/or dropped, to which all I have to say is \o/

What did work was this :

When on the language setup screen try, volume up, volume down, back button, search button.

Taken from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1208713.html