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Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3 Test Results

Testing will focus on smoketests, BFTs, and spotchecks of en-US and all available locales.

Related Pages

• Alpha 3 Release Tracking Page
• Alpha 3 Test Instructions
• Other key test result pages:
  • L10n Test Results
• How you can help in Thunderbird QA

Contact Info

• Meet fellow testers and ask for help in:
  • #testday channel on irc.mozilla.org IRC instructions
  • news.mozilla.org newsgroups: mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
• If fellow testers are unable to help, please post in newsgroup with subject containing Shredder Alpha 3 QA or ping QA lead in #testday channel
• QA lead for Alpha 3 is wsmwk

Get announcements about the progress of this and future test events by subscribing to thunderbird-testers mailing list

Schedule

Builds handed to QA

2008-10-04

QA signoff

• Smoketests - 2008-10-??
• Spotchecks - 2008-10-??
• BFTs - 2008-10-??

Release Notes

Please read the release notes before testing.

• Draft release notes
• Details of new features, as documented in a previous testday for 3.0a3
• trunk regressions, confirmed
• trunk regressions, unconfirmed
• bug 457186 - Prepare Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3 release notes

Build Location and IDs

Build 3

Please do not test using old alphas, betas or a nightly. Download all OSes, all locales, from release candidates at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3

en-US builds:

• Windows - version 3.0a3 (20081006095651)
• Linux - version 3.0a3 (20081006094447)
• OS X [PPC Mac]: version 3.0a3 (20081006093807)
• OS X [Intel Mac] - version 3.0a3 (20081006093807)

Build 2

Build 2 is obsolete

Please do not test using old alphas, betas or a nightly. Download all OSes, all locales, from release candidates at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build2

en-US builds:

• Windows - version 3.0a3 (20081003133014) - UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081003 Shredder/3.0a3
• Linux - version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• OS X [PPC Mac]: version 3.0a3 (20081003122238) UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081003 Shredder/3.0a3
• OS X [Intel Mac] - version 3.0a3 (20081003122238) UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081003 Shredder/3.0a3

Test Coverage

Objectives:

• smoketest all 3 major platforms, and as many locales as possible
• BFT at least one platform (BFT is divided into pieces to reduce time required of each person -- so all tests get done, but not necessarily all on the same, single OS by one person).

• Areas Covered (en-US):
  • Spotchecks
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs
  • L10n, spotcheck selected locales
• Areas Not Covered:
  • FFTs
  • Updates
  • L10n

Previous release: Alpha 2 smoketested all 3 major platforms, full coverage of windows BFT, .de locale received a full smoketest

QA Summary

• Smoketests: 2008-10-?? - 2008-10-??
• Windows XP/Vista BFTs: 2008-10-?? - 2008-10-??
• Linux BFTs: 2008-10-?? - 2008-10-??
• Mac BFTs: -
• Release to World: 2008-10-??

Testing Results Summary

Smoketests

• Windows XP SP1 (-who-) - 2008-10-??
• Windows Vista SP1 (-who-) - 2008-10-??
• Mac OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (-who-) - 2008-10-??
• Mac OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (-who-) - 2008-010-??
• Linux (-who-) - 2008-10-??

BFTs

• Windows XP SP2/Vista (-who-) - 2008-10-??

Spot checks

• Windows Vista SP1 - 2008-10-??
• Mac OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 - 2008-10-??
• Mac OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 - 2008-10-??
• Linux (multiple) - 2008-10-??

Testday

A post release Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3 testday has not yet been scheduled. A pre release Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3 testday was held.

Detailed Results

Smoketests

Windows XP SP2 (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Locale: ru
• Bugs reported: ()

Mac OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: ()

Mac OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported:

Used wrong builds...

Windows XP Vista (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: ()

Windows Vista SP2 (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: ()

BFT

Windows XP SP2/Vista (wsmwk and others)

• Date: 2008-08-08 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus BFT
• Results: ????

Linux (-who-)

• Date: 2008-10-?? - 2008-10-??
• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Test Type: Litmus BFT
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported:

• Issues Noted - Bugs filed:
  • _

Spot Check

Visually check accounts manager and addons, login to an account, send a message to ensure there is nothing vividly broken, and tinker around other parts of Thunderbird. To record your test results below: login to the wiki, click edit above at Thunderbird Spot Check, copy one of the blocks below and paste a new one for yourself, and :

• change PASS/FAILED to PASS or FAILED
• change -who- to your name
• change 200810???? to your buildid from help|about

Spot Check Vista SP1 (-who-)

• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check Linux (-who-)

• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check Linux (-who-)

• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (who)

• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (who)

• Build ID: version 3.0a3 (200810????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED