Blogs

This past year on the Mozilla Web Team, 2011, was an incredibly fortuitous and ambitious adventure that finished off with excellent fireworks. I’m currently an engineering lead on 4 projects but two of them accomplished something special in the final days of the year. Not too long ago Mozilla launched BrowserID; a secure, single sign on service that doesn’t have the privacy concerns associated with similar services (Google, Facebook, etc). A year-end goal was to integrate BrowserID into two of our web properties without floundering on quality. ...

My parterner and I just returned from a great trip to Durango, Colorado for her brother’s wedding. Durango is one of my favorite places in the United States. It’s located in the South West portion of Colorado and has both mountains and desert. At one point in my life I lived here, spending 10 years exploring this area. There is lots of hiking, biking, and climbing in this remote portion of the the state. ...

Hello all, A late update for tomorrows WebQA hosted test day, Friday 2011-09-09. WebQA won’t be hosting a test day this week. I had planned on a day of working to expand the Selenium coverage on Socorro (aka Breakpad … akaCrashstats). Of the many reasons I can think of it mainly comes down to I’ve been overrun with work and can’t sustainably host this tomorrow. This is not to say that the backlog of tests to be automated is small, in fact with the help of Tobias Markus (our wonderful intern) it has ceaselessly grown as he’s dug through the existing testcases during hisgap analysis. ...

Recently I needed to find the equivalent of /etc/hosts for Win7. I’ll be honest, my first attempt at poking around Windows was a complete flop. I haven’t worked in a Windows environment in years and I can’t claim that I was a power user at that time (even remotely). Let me quickly get to the point of this post, on Win7 there exists a hosts file. I was pleasantly surprised that it functions the same as /etc/hosts on Linux. ...

Mozilla will be hosting a talk by Lanette Creamer, aka, The Testy Redhead on June 14 at 12:00pm which is open to the public and will be streamed live on air.mozilla.com. Lanette will be speaking about testing for the user experience with workflow testing: Customers who are so delighted with a product or service that they will tell others are a magnificent asset which every company wishes to retain and attract. While we have many ways to test for code stability, features, and functionality, there are not as many test methodologies that explore reporting on the overall user experience. ...