What we are going to tackle next

So, now that we have our basic Sunny Day environment more-or-less running, it's time to figure out what to do next.

We have identified two areas as fertile fruit for further testing using the Sunny Day environment.

1. Establish WebRTC connection - This set of tests will test connecting between two clients in a variety of network situations. Networks with different characteristics will either be setup or simulated with test doubles. We will be testing with high-latency, low-bandwidth, high packet loss and other pathological environments. We will also be testing in various configurations with NAT, firewalls, and other different network topologies.
2. Quality of established connection - Once the connection is made, how well does it hold up when various bad things happen to the network? We will also attempt to test audio/video quality.

We are first going to write test plans for this and then implement tests to the plan. Other members of the team are primarily responsible for these efforts.

I will be working on the environmental problem. Basically, we have to run in a wide variety of environments:

• Different platforms - Linux, Windows, Mac OS X on the desktop; Android and Firefox OS for mobile.
• Different Firefox versions - We will test nightly connecting with the various public releases of Firefox - Nightly, Aurora, Beta, Release and Extended Release for Desktop; as-yet-unknown for mobile.
• Potentially different browsers - Chrome, Opera

I will be building an environment using both VMWare ESX and VMWare Fusion, with a smattering of bare hardware. The job control software will be Jenkins, with the rest of the machines closely matching the configuration of the Sunny Day environment.

I have to build out the hardware (or have it built out), but I also have to develop the Jenkins instance configuration, find a way to store it in source control, and write scripts to build machines up. We have a few that we use in the Sunny Day environment; I plan on expanding that work.

Should be fun!