[Testing] mozilla's litmus ?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Adric Net <adric at adric.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  Has anyone here worked with Mozilla's Litmus tool yet? The main wiki
>  page[1] defines it as:
>
>  "Litmus is the new integrated testcase management and QA tool that is
>  designed to improve workflow,
>  visibility, and turnaround time in the Mozilla QA process. It is first
>  and foremost designed as a
>  replacement for Testrunner, but will also have additional
>  functionality. "
>
>  I've run through some tests from Miro (where I first caught sight of
>  Litmus) and FF3 and found it fairly
>  pleasant. Since it's zilla based XO can use some of the Javascript
>  calls to identify builds as Firefox
>  does and that would make collection easier. It's not inconceivable
>  that some of the testing could even
>  be partially optimized in the same manner..
>
>  I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any experience with Litmus or
>  similar QA automation tools.
>  To my eyes this looks like something that could be really useful for
>  the manual QA XO needs ... and
>  after the inital revving up it might free up some resources to work on
>  the automated testing frameworks
>  .. which I'd also like to hear more about. :)
>
>  Thanks,
>  adric
>
>  [1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Litmus

This looks to be oriented to managing a large group of testers with a
large number of test cases. Are there plans to have any of those soon?

I wonder if we could get people from deployment countries to work
together with such a system?

Regards,

Tomeu