Bug Triage Extension

Project Name

Bug Triage Extension

Project Description

Mike Beltzner suggested this one after his talk. The idea is to make it trivial for testers to follow-through a bug's Steps To Reproduce (STR) so as to confirm it. A tester should be able to use this Extension to ask for a bug (i.e., one would be picked for him/her--no querying) and then a sidebar or similar would appear showing the steps to follow. Under that would need to be a way (e.g., buttons) to say that the bug is confirmed or not. Ideally the QA team could prioritize bugs so they appear in this list automatically, making it easier for testers to get the "right" bugs quickly.

Reference: talk to beltzner.

Project Leader(s)

• David Hamp-Gonsalves

Project News

• first try at creating a FF extension
• emailed beltzner

• Spoke to robcee and jay on irc, and they are both interested in following this and helping out. Jay is going to be away until Oct 16. Contact him then. (dave)

• Research time: lots of IRC talk, web searching, and such. Mostly XPCOM stuff and ways to handle the database connectivity, also a bit of java but I've put that idea aside. Looking for an existing XPCOM componet that can handle this.

• New good link added: http://www.allpeers.com/blog/creating-complex-firefox-extensions

• possiable answer to database connection stuff: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2002/12/17/app_dev.html?page=last
• working on installing SQL functionality:
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81653
  • http://eu.mozdev.org/Brussels2003/talks/jan/index.html
  • http://www.mozilla.org/projects/sql/
• rethink...
• talked to Dave Humphrey and reed got some new ideas

Project Resources

• http://www.allpeers.com/blog/creating-complex-firefox-extensions

• http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/tutorial/

• http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/
• http://www.orablogs.com/duffblog/archives/000536.html
• http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/howto.html