Andy

To start:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Core&product=Firefox&product=Firefox%20for%20Android&product=Firefox%20for%20iOS&product=Toolkit&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&status_whiteboard=test%20disabled%2Ctest-disabled%2Ctestdisabled&status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&order=bug_id&limit=0

Add-ons, Web Extensions, and Plugins related:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=test%20disabled%2Ctest-disabled%2Ctestdisabled&component=Add-on%20Manager&component=Add-ons%20Manager&component=Plug-ins&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Android&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Compatibility&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Developer%20Tools&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Experiments&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Frontend&component=WebExtensions%3A%20General&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Request%20Handling&component=WebExtensions%3A%20Untriaged&product=Core&product=Firefox&product=Firefox%20for%20Android&product=Firefox%20for%20iOS&product=Toolkit

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Andrew McKay <amc...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Is there an easy way for me to track what tests have been disabled as
> result of intermittent issues we haven't been able to fix?
>
> On 6 September 2017 at 14:10,  <jma...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > Over the last 9 months a few of us have really watched intermittent test
> failures almost daily and done a lot to pester people as well as fix many.
> While there are over 420 bugs that have been fixed since the beginning of
> the year, there are half that many (211+) which have been disabled in some
> form (including turning off the jobs).
> >
> > We don't like to disable and have been pretty relaxed in recommending
> disabling a test.  Overall we have tried to adhere to a policy of:
> > * >=30 failures/week- ask for owner to look at failure and fix it, if
> this persists for a few weeks with no real traction we would go ahead [and
> recommend] disabling it.
> > * >= 75 failures/week- ask for people to fix this in a shorter time
> frame and recommend disabling the test in a week or so
> > * >= 150 failures/week- often just disable the test
> >
> > This is confusing and hard to manage.  Since then we have started
> adjusting triage queries and some teams are doing their own triage and we
> are ignoring those bugs (while they are getting prioritized properly).
> >
> > What we are looking to start doing this month is adopting a simpler
> policy:
> > * any bug that has >=200 instances in the last 30 days will be disabled
> > ** this will be a manual process, so it will happen a couple times/week
> >
> > We expect the outcome of this to be a similar amount of disabling, just
> an easier method for doing so.  It is very possible we might recommend
> disabling a test before it hits the threshold- keep in mind a disabled test
> is easy to re-enable (so feel free to disable for that one platform until
> you have time to look at fixing it)
> >
> > To be clear we (and some component owners) will continue triaging bugs
> and trying to get fixes in place as often as possible and prefer a fix, not
> a disabled test!
> >
> > Please raise any concerns, otherwise we will move forward with this in
> the coming weeks.
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