Planning for the Toronto MozCamp continues. We decided to use the second day as a “Hands-on Workshop” day. The workshop will be split between development and testing tracks, choose the topic that interests you.
I’ll be working in the development workshop with other Mozilla developers, helping you work on tutorials or projects. We’ll have some tutorial XUL applications, extensions, and XPCOM components for people to hack on. Make sure you bring a laptop, if you want to work on the projects. If you want to build Firefox, XULRunner or binary XPCOM components - make sure your laptop is capable of building Mozilla . (check the prerequisites!)
The testing workshop will be covering topics on Mozilla testing processes, how we write unit tests, and how we automate testing of the Firefox UI (to name a few). Clint Talbert has more information on the testing workshop.
A bit of an event summary:
It’s a 2-day event, September 15t...
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