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 …
I think this was a great conference. Thanks to the folks from Mozilla Europe for organizing it. I’ll have more to say about it later, but I wanted to dash down a few thoughts before running off into the internet free lands for vacation. We had an amazing audience of …
There was some response to my earlier post asking for volunteers to help with the QA Companion tool. I’ve started to get the tools together that we’ll need in order to start working on this add-on. There will be a project page on the up-coming final release of the quality.mozilla.org …
Calling all Add-On developers and would-be-Add-On developers! The QA Companion Add-On could use your help! Zach Lipton and Ben Hsieh created the QA Companion Add-On. This is an extension that sits in a little window outside Firefox or Thunderbird and helps you to run litmus tests against the application. It …
Save the date for September 15 and 16, and plan to get yourself to Seneca College in Toronto. We are bringing together the best and the brightest minds on the Mozilla platform to talk about everything from making an extension to testing low-level API’s for your next XUL application. We …
I’m dusting off this blog now. Over the last two weeks of traveling, I attended OSCON, and spoke several times at FossCoach, an “unconference” inside the OSCON conference. I talked a bit about building online communities, and about the pluses and minuses of getting started in QA (Quality Assurance) in …