QA/Fennec/GetInvolved

Feature Ownership

Mentors: Aaron Train, Kevin Brosnan

• Projects or tasks :
  • Come up with ideas for a test strategy for the feature
  • Add test cases for features owned
  • Write up portions of the test plan (e.g. functionality, localization)
  • Organize testing around the test plan
  • Triage bugs for the feature
  • Verify fixes

Release Testing

Mentors: Aaron Train, Kevin Brosnan

• Projects or tasks :
  • Running smoketests on en-US or their locale
  • Dogfooding builds and providing us feedback
  • Triaging SUMO/Feedback to escalate potential issues
  • Triaging popular local networks for issues (ex. forums, newsgroups, social networks, etc)
  • Filing a bug
  • Feature testing
  • Bug triage & fix verification
  • Crash investigation
  • Running pre-release and specialized builds made by the mobile developers
  • Testing websites outside our view (ex. Banking, Video, Social websites popular outside the US)

Test Case Writing

Mentors: Aaron Train, Kevin Brosnan

• Projects or tasks :
  • Create new test cases for new Firefox features
  • Flag applicable bugs that need MozTrap test cases
  • Review other community members test cases and suggest improvements
  • Identify and fix broken test cases in MozTrap

Test Case Automation

Mentors: Adrian Tamas

• Projects or tasks :
  • Fixing good-first-bug bugs
  • Refactoring tests
  • Fixing failures
  • Creating minified test cases for Mozmill tests (ex. a webpage that displays a video)
  • Writing new tests for MozTrap smoketests
  • Writing new tests for Firefox features

Community Building

Mentors: Aaron Train, Kevin Brosnan

• Projects or tasks :
  • Responding to Get Involved email list queries for QA
  • Spreading the word
  • Localization
  • Organizing a local event
  • Participating in, advertising, moderating, or organizing a testday
  • Educating, on-boarding, or mentoring family, friends, co-workers, schoolmates, etc
  • Reviewing product, feature, how-to documentation to vet for accuracy, ease of comprehension
  • Localizing existing documentation (mostly QMO)

Bugzilla Work

Mentors: Aaron Train, Kevin Brosnan

• Projects or tasks (some can also fit under Feature Ownership):
  • Verify bug fixes
  • Triage UNCONFIRMED bug reports
  • Triage crash bug reports