The past four month’s have offered me an an incredible chance to learn, far more than any one job, classroom or book may offer. I have learned a lot; everything from the Mozilla platform to invalidation reference testing to XML User Interface Language (XUL) to reducing test-cases for crashes in the browser to even the vast assortment of brownbags and meet-up discussions, I have learned a lot. With the knowledge gained, this internship opportunity has been far more rewarding than one could possibly imagine. There is nothing more rewarding than having the opportunity to discover, ascertain and to also ask many upon many questions.
Four month’s long, I worked alongside the QA (Execution & Test Dev) team driving forth many efforts within the world of testing. Over the months, I got to tackle quite a few tricky issues that turned out to require new and unique solutions that I really enjoyed inventing and implementing. The different challenges and testing opportunities were each rewarding as they demonstrated the underlying importance of software testing.
Working alongside other QA members, I got to work the bulk of my internship on re-factoring and rewriting the Mozilla QA Companion Firefox Add-on. It was created after discussions between the QA team and our community about how to make it easier for anyone to get involved with the Mozilla project and help us test Firefox. Collaborating and working alongside superb team members granted the project a helpful and memorable experience.
Thanks Mozilla and in particular the friendly folks of QA for the first-rate experience.
