Quality assurance (QA)

• Term implies "things we do to make product not suck"
• Quality-related activities: testing, triage, smoketesting nightly builds, tinderbox
• Testing: ad-hoc user testing, contributed tests from commercial QA, smoketests
• Smoketests: thorough tests of the nightly build every weekday; broken tests block integration
• 120,000 bugs, 80K browser alone: developers need help confirming bugs, making testcases, reassigning
• QA keeps an eye on Bonsai and Tinderbox to catch regressions