Mozilla Internship

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Mozilla Internship
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about Mozilla
a global, open source project a community of
thousands of creators a mission-oriented
organization a public benefit benefit company
subs the maker of Firefox and Thunderbird
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about Mozilla
project started in 1998 within Netscape Mozilla
Foundation started in 2003 40 of code
contributed by outsiders testing community of
20,000 currently more than 220 million users
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MozillaMission
to promote choice and innovation on the
Internet seriously ... thats it
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Mozilla Internship
wide range of internship positions competitive
compensation package experience life in an
open-source org
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MozillaQA

• focus on
• basic functionality
• standards compliance
• performance

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MozillaQA

• achieved by
• automated tests
• manual tests
• community

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MozillaQA

• who tests?
• nightly testers - 10 thousand
• beta testers - 3 million
• web developers
• QA team - 18

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QA Test Developer
private browsing audio/video tests layout
invalidation issues major Firefox 3.5
testing crash reproduction/RTC analysis quality
assurance companion
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Mozilla QAC
installable add-on for Mozilla Firefox easiest
way to connect with community able to run
hundreds of test cases allows one to find bugs
and report them
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Mozilla QAC
we need all the testing we can the results from
test cases are valuable confirmed bugs will get
fixed
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Mozilla QAC
redesign and refactoring project focus on the
user experience reinforce the purpose
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Mozilla QAC

• features
• portal to the QA community
• run tests and submit results
• file and submit bug reports

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Mozilla QAC
languages and technologies used JavaScript XUL
JSON SVN XML DTD
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Mozilla QAC

• challenges
• analyzing and interpreting old code
• XML User Interface Language (XUL)
• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• compromising on best UI and UX

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Mozilla QAC

• desktop
• shift over to new TCM system
• mobile
• uneasy challenge (space constraints)
• development on N810, Tegra
• new features specific to mobile

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Mozilla Internship
a positive highly rewarding experience expanded
my understandings of business communicated with
people globally worked with motivated
volunteers wrote real-world maintainable software
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Questions?
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