Ian Hickson Weekly QA Status

Fortnight Ending 2000-10-06

Project Testing - Planning and Coverage Tasks Conducted

5.0

• General
  • Spent some time in meetings with engineers to discuss some bugs.
  • Caught up with my 2000+ bugmails that had backlogged.
  • Set up some mail filters for Bugzilla mails (and planned for some better ones in the coming days)
• Testing Documentation Development, Reviews and Updates
  • Attended meeting to discuss Bugzilla schema changes, output abstraction, and API standardisation.
• Testcase Development, Reviews and Updates
  • Created 10 attachments in Bugzilla (testcases) after narrowing bugs.
  • Did some exploratory testing with the DOM, in preparation to creating a DOM2 Style test suite.
  • Requested information from engineers in preparation to writing DOM2 Style test suite.
• Testing Conducted
  • Conducted thorough testing for MN6 branch prior to PR3 release.
• Bug Management
  • NEW: 13.
  • REOPENED: 1.
  • VERIFIED: 6.
  • INVALID: 7.
  • WORKSFORME: 3.
  • WONTFIX: 4.
  • DUPLICATE: 2.
  • RELEASE NOTE ITEMS: 6.
  • DETAILED COMMENTS: 10.
  • Made a total of 206 bug modifications.
• Hot Bugs
  • There are many CSS bugs that are going to cause serious problems to web authors (when they find their web pages don't work in N6), web users (when they find web pages don't look right in N6) and us (when we release N6.5 and thus break all the pages dependent on our current broken behaviour) if they are not resolved before RTM. Unfortunately PDT have prioritised these bugs out of the stratosphere. Some of these bugs are mentioned below. I stopped short of giving a full list of the serious CSS1 compliance bugs since that would take ages.
  • bug 3935: mozilla-native psuedo classes and properties should be marked as such
  • bug 4831: float should not be higher than earlier float on opposite side
  • bug 12272: clear not clearing previous floating siblings of ancestors
  • bug 41412: text overlapping top edge of pushed-down float
  • bug 46291: float should not be higher than cleared float on same side
  • bug 53974: hovering over paragraph with generated content repeats content
  • bug 3490: line-breaking bug caused by -ve margin-right on inline elements
  • bug 46918: line-breaking bug caused by +ve margin-right on inline elements
  • bug 5693: problems with :hover (the full fix, not the performance fix that is rtm+)
  • bug 2942: non-CSS presentational hints and user stylesheets
  • bug 43220: author !important rules override user !important rules in user.css
• Project Related Issues/Concerns/Successes
  • See previous section.
• Plans for Next Week
  • Continue to comment on all relevant bugs.
  • DOM2 CSS test development
  • TESREMAS planning

SusEng QA Support

• General Issues Concerns
  • none
• Testing Conducted
  • none
• Hot Bugs
  • none

Server/Lab HW-SW Updates

• none

The Personals!

• Finally finished the first difficulty level in Diablo II.
• Got myself a couple of websites (http://hixie.ch/ and http://www.damowmow.com/) so now I'd better put some content there!
• In my spare time I've also been rewriting mozbot, and this is now nearing completion! Wohay!