851723 - possible to get duplicate environments that look identical, leading to confusion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla QA Graveyard :: MozTrap, defect)

Description

[Cameron Dawson [:camd]]

some parts of the product allow you to create environments from env elements "on the fly" and it creates a new environment for that.  the problem is that you can create one env with element A, and another new env with element A as well.  They look the same, but are not.  This leads to confusion with cases, suites, runs, etc.

we need to 
1. make sure when a new env is created, we check for an existing identical one and use that instead.
2. make a script to "fix" all duplicate envs with identical elements
3. fix all the places where dup envs are referenced

Comment 1

[Cameron Dawson [:camd]]

A Pivotal Tracker story has been created for this Bug: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/46314293

Comment 2

[Cameron Dawson [:camd]]

Cameron Dawson changed story state to started in Pivotal Tracker

Comment 3

[Cameron Dawson [:camd]]

Cameron Dawson changed story state to unstarted in Pivotal Tracker

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Mass-closing remaining MozTrap bugs as WONTFIX, due to 1) the Mozilla-hosted instance being decommissioned (see https://wiki.mozilla.org/TestEngineering/Testrail), and, for now, 2) the still-up code archived at its GitHub page: https://github.com/mozilla/moztrap (we'll decide what's next for that, in the near future).

See also the history and more-detailed discussion which led us here, at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.quality/Sa75hV8Ywvk

(If you'd like, you should be able to filter these notification emails using at least the unique string of "Sa75hV8Ywvk" in the message body.

Thanks!