A shared experiment As a QA team we had a difficult and challenging quarter to end 2014 on; that said, the work with the MDN team was a personal highlight for me. A fulfilling way to cap off the end of the year. The goal was to implement an experiment: convert several Python-based tests into JavaScript. Place these tests into the build process that the developers use and see what it nets. ...
Many of Mozilla’s web projects have adopted concepts from continuous delivery. Once a code change lands on a master branch it is shepherded to production with little-to-no human intervention. Quickly getting new features out to users. While the implementation details vary from project to project, the core concepts tend to remain the same between projects. It is important for project stewards; project managers, developers, testers, UX, community, etc to have a shared vocabulary. ...
Mozillians Vouch Refactor - Testday Welcome to the Mozillians project. We love working with old and new contributors! The latest feature set of the community phonebook has landed and is ready for testing. The phonebook is a place to find, share, and communicate with open web advocates throughout the world. The community has worked to find creative ways to make the phonebook a place where active and trusted memebers of the community can connect. The latest set of features seeks to push new contributors and returning contributors to be more active in shaping our community. ...
The Mozilla Community Tools team is hosting a Meetup this week, June 10 - 12, Prior to the Meetup the group brainstormed goals for the gathering as well as a loose schedule. Ongoing meeting notes can be found here. * If you would like to participate please ping us in #commtools. The Web QA group is giving a brief presentation on 2014-06-11: commtools_meetup_presentation.pdf
Open Space Conference By several orders of magnitude this year’s Java Posse Roundup was more interesting and engaging than the previous year. In large part due to my increased comfort attending an OpenSpace event, primarily, as a participant it is up to me to infuse energy into the event even when I am not a subject expert, let alone a novice on a topic. ...