Releases/Firefox 3.5.14/Test Plan

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Firefox 3.5.14 Test Plan

Description of Release

This is a normal security and stability release for Firefox.

Specific Plan for 3.5.14

We need to verify bug fixes and go through the usual testing for a maintenance release: smoketests, basic functional tests, l10n spot checks, and updates checks.

Schedule

  • Code Freeze: 9/28 @ 11:59 pm PDT
  • QA starts: 9/20
  • Build #1 starts: 9/29
  • Build #1 available: 9/30
  • QA with builds start: 9/30
    • Smoketests: 9/30
    • BFTs: 9/30 - 10/1
  • Build #1 released to beta channel, throttled at 5%: 10/1
    • Betatest and Beta Channel Testing: 10/1
    • Beta throttling upped to 15%: 10/4
    • Beta throttling upped to 25%: 10/5
    • Beta throttling upped to 50%: 10/6
    • Beta throttling upped to 100% (no throttling): 10/7
  • QA finishes build #1 verification: 10/7
  • Final release: 10/14
    • Releasetest & Release Channel Testing: 10/14

Resources

  • Smoketests: 2 people
    • gmealer
    • tester
  • BFTs: 2 people
    • gmealer
    • tester
  • Updates checks: 1 person
    • ashughes

Builds

Build 1 missed l10n changes for a few locales that were necessary. So we had to re-spin.

Build 2 missed a bit that makes the UA say "3.5.14" instead of "3.5.14pre", so we had to re-spin once more.

Test Results

Bugs to Verify

Important:

  1. Focus on critical and security bugs first.
  2. Mark bug as verified adding the keyword verified1.9.1