Category Archives: QA
Blob free now on task cluster
Bug 1175934 – [B2G] Add support to build blobfree images has landed and is now available on task cluster : https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/artifacts/#gecko.v1.mozilla-central.latest.linux.aries-blobfree/gecko.v1.mozilla-central.latest.linux.aries-blobfree.opt What is Blob free? see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building#Building_a_blob_free_full_system_zip That’s right. if you follow Bug 1166276 – (b2g-addon) [meta] Getting a B2G Installer Addon, … Continue reading
Adventures in gecko backouts…
So today we needed to back out of some changes that caused some breakages… or so we thought. Mainly because https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142132 had broken bluetooth. Usually the OTA is turned off once a smoke test blocker like this has been found. … Continue reading
Here may be some random bits of useful information :
* FYI, since Aki left, a temporary place for the hash from hg to git can be found : http://people.mozilla.org/~pmoore/vcs2vcs/ The bug was created to find a more permanent place for the map files, etc. Bug 929336 is tracking that … Continue reading
B2G Compilation error on Mac OS X
On Mac OS X 10.7 or newer, with Xcode 4.5 or newer, if you ran into this compilation error: host Executable: sqlite3 (out/host/darwin-x86/obj/EXECUTABLES/sqlite3_intermediates/sqlite3) Undefined symbols for architecture i386: “_sqlite3_androidopt_handle_pragma”, referenced from: _sqlite3Pragma in sqlite3.o _sqlite3Pragma in sqlite3.o … Continue reading
It took a while to hunt down a site that allowed for free hosting of 50 gigs or more and then post the file up. There are certain modifications I had made from yesterday to the image as well. There … Continue reading
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
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