363005 - Allow Litmus to search for results where the associated Bug has been resolved

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: Litmus, enhancement, P5)

Description

[cmtalbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

This is a difficult enhancement. Here is the problem I would like to solve:
1. Test case fails, bug filed and bug ID entered into Litmus
2. Eventually bug is fixed or resolved in bugzilla
3. We have another test day, and in preparation we want to query our failures and see which test cases are associated with bugs that have been resolved. Then we would include those subgroups as high priority for testing.

This is definitely blurring the line between "verifying fixed bugs" in bugzilla and Litmus. I think the underlying question here is "how closely should Litmus be tied to Bugzilla"? And the answer to that will determine how this bug should be resolved.

At any rate, here is a use case for a very close interaction between the two.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to find failed test cases in Litmus where the bugs in those failed cases have been resolved in bugzilla


Actual Results:  
You cannot simply query for this information.

Expected Results:  
You would need to walk through each bug, find its bug ID and then query bugzilla for its status.

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

This dovetails into a issue that came up recently re: Litmus customization for 3rd parties who want to use their own bugzilla, or different bug tracking software entirely. We should be mindful of that when we go to fix this.

Zach: you're probably more familiar with the bugzilla internals than I am...is this even possible, i.e. can we query across the dbs easily, or does bugzilla perhaps expose a query interface we could use?

Comment 2

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

If (as part of bug 363001) we provide a list of failing results that *do* have bugs specified, is that sufficient to close this bug? 

Haven't heard anything regarding the query interface I asked about above, so I would need to construct my own bugzilla query by hand using a list of Bug IDs that I culled from Litmus. Doable, but not the most efficient.

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Litmus is being decommissioned in bug 802674. 

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