Closed Bug 991664 Opened 11 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Test Automation for PluginCheck

Categories

(Websites :: plugins.mozilla.org, defect, P2)

Product:
Websites
Component:
plugins.mozilla.org
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: espressive, Unassigned)

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Details

Merging in a discussion started via email for further discussions: Schalk ping'd and asked for an audience; plugin check is seeing new development and the team has begun noticing a number of regressions and new bugs that automation could potentially limit as well as catch before code lands on prod. The plugin check site is ranked as the #2 site (#1 is mozilla.org) that the public lands on. I would suggest we identify scenarios that should never fail - start with happy path smoke tests - and automate those first. We also need to identify infrastructure requirements and discuss how to solve these hurdles as well as if and what we can reasonably accomplish within time frame constraints. Example; how to effectively spin up and maintain different instances of multiple OSes with specific versions of Flash (etc) installed that the tests can run against. Cheers, Matt Brandt
Do we know where most visits to the site are coming from? If a number are coming from the Firefox UI, then we might want to have automated testing that spans coming from that UI and interacting with the page. And that leads me to wonder if we also need some Firefox automation there, so adding Henrik here. KaiRo
We have remote tests in the mozmill-tests repository, which are targeted to run tests between the application and a website. Our tests are not limited to localhost, so we can indeed test the live site! We have machines across all platforms and version, and Flash is installed. But only the latest and most secure version. As of now we cannot flip between different versions of it. So for those requirements a dedicated system might be preferable. We should be able to help you in figuring out what's necessary. Just let us know. -- Henrik Skupin Software Engineer in Test Mozilla Corporation

PluginCheck is no longer supported

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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