One of the many different things we are trying this year with Quality at Mozilla is exposing opportunities for people to get involved in our projects in more significant, meaningful ways. We’ve always had these kinds of opportunities available, but we’ve historically been terrible at making them known. To remedy …
As leaves begin to turn in some places, the Bay area gets a nice blast of heat in September. It’s like a week of summer that forgot to happen back when we were socked in with fog in July. But, that nice last bit of warmth before our leaves start …
When we started automating tests for Firefox OS, we knew that we could do a lot with automated testing on phone emulators–we could run in a very similar environment to the phone, using the same low level instruction set, even do some basic operations like SMS between two emulator processes. …
Last week, the Mozilla Quality Assurance team came together for the first time in years to plot out a new direction for themselves and for Quality at Mozilla. We have dedicated ourselves to making a transition to a Quality Engineering team. There is more to that change than a simple …
For a long time, I’ve led the automation team at Mozilla. This past fall, I took on the job of leading the QA team as well. I don’t really like the term “QA.” Technically, it means “Quality Assurance.” It’s a term borrowed from industrial settings where you actually have quality …
At long last, we’re happy to announce Mozmill 1.5! o/ MOZMILL 1.5 o/ It’s ready now on Pypi and (once it’s reviewed) on Addons.mozilla.org. Tons of changes and many hours of work went into this release. We couldn’t have done it without you! Heather Arthur Jeff Hammel Andrew Halberstadt Henrik …