QA/Firefox

Overview

This material is largely out of date

The Firefox QA team is responsible for the Firefox browser -- both Desktop, (Windows, Linux, Mac) and Mobile (Android). Our responsibilities include qualifying builds prior to a maintenance or milestone release. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Verifying bugs using a triage strategy
• Running basic functional tests and smoke tests - automated and manual
• Running our automated test suites on localized builds
• Running automated update tests across platforms, through all update paths, across localized builds
• Making sure web content is ready for consumption

In addition to qualifying builds prior to a release, we perform ongoing tasks on the development branches to ensure no major problems get uplifted as we merge changes to the next branch. For example, on a daily basis we:

• Confirm new unconfirmed bugs
• Verify bugs on development branches like Aurora and Beta
• Engage community and new volunteers in helping improve Firefox through test day events
• Interact with developers to help them test the features they implement
• Perform exploratory testing on new features while on the Aurora branch
• Write test cases in Litmus for new features and user-facing features
• Monitor crash-stats to assess stability
• File and track new crasher bugs as they appear in crash-stats
• Manage web compatibility testing through community involvement or crowdsourcing companies that help in testing hardware configurations and top-site testing

All of which help assess the quality of individual new features as well as the Firefox version as a whole.

Community

Everyone is welcome to join us in testing and in our weekly meetings.

If you would like to help out, pick a task from One and Done, which has a list of ways to start testing. All the tasks are up-to-date and they have clear, step by step instructions!

• One and Done tasks for Desktop Firefox.
• One and Done tasks for Firefox for Android
• Community roles. This explains how to become an active or core contributor in QA.

Team Meetings

This team has been broken up and is embedded with the development teams. Channel Meetings is the best place to get an overview of what individuals are working on.

Meeting Notes

• Archived meeting notes QA/Firefox/TeamMeetings

Team Members and Assignments

Firefox QA Team - July 2014 Work Week
Front:Matt,Juan,Gaby,Liz
Back:Nils,Kamil,KaiRo,Anthony,Tracy,Kevin,Marc,Aaron
Not Pictured: Henrik

SoftVision QA Team

SoftVision QA Team

Community members

Here are a few of our active community members!

Name	Contact	Roles
Gabriela Montagu	gaby2300	Contributor in QA and Mozilla Hispano; testdays
Francesca Ciceri	madamezou	Firefox QE contributor, 2014 OPW intern
Tiziana Sellitto	tiziana	Firefox QE contributor, 2013 OPW intern, triage workshops, addon developer
Andre Klapper	andre	Bug triage, Wikimedia bug wrangler, Bugzilla project
Aleksej	Aleksej	Bug triage, verification, Bugday moderator, channel op for #bugday
Jayakumar Sadhasivam	iamjayakumars	Bug triage, Nightly tester, Firefox OS tester, SUMO

Feature Owners

Major features in Firefox are owned by a primary QA contact who is responsible for ensuring the proper testing of those features.

We encourage community members to try specializing in a particular Firefox feature so they gain knowledge in depth! Contact the feature owner if you would like to be a tester on their team.

Here's our current list of Feature Owners.

Release Owners

(M) = Mobile, (D) = Desktop

Nightly (N)	Fx34	Fx 35	Fx 36	Fx 37	Fx 38	Fx 39	Fx 40
Aurora (A)	Fx33	Fx 34	Fx 35	Fx 36	Fx 37	Fx 38	Fx 39
Beta (B)	Fx32	Fx 33	Fx 34	Fx 35	Fx 36	Fx 37	Fx 38
Owner	July 22-Sept1	Sept 2-Oct 13	Oct 14-Nov 24	Nov 25 -Jan 5	Jan 6th – Feb 16	Feb 17- Mar 30	Mar 31 – May 11
Anthony	Fx34(D) N	Fx35(M) N	Fx35(M) A	Fx35(M) B	Off	Fx39(D) N	Fx39(D) N	Fx39(D) N
Aaron	Fx32(M)/Fx34(M)	Fx34(M) A	Fx34(M) B	Off	Fx38(M) N	Fx38(M) N	Fx38(M) N
Kevin	Fx33(M) A	Fx33(M) B	Off	Fx37(M) N	Fx37(M) A	Fx37(M) B	Fx 40(D) N	Fx 40(D) A	Fx 40(D) B
Juan	Fx32(D) B	Off – e10s prep	Fx 36(D) e10s N	Fx 36(D) e10s A	Fx 36(D) e10s B	Fx39(M) N	Fx39(M) N	Fx39(M) N
KaiRo	Off	Fx35(D) N	Fx35(D) A	Fx35(D) B	Fx38(D) N	Fx38(D) N	Fx38(D) N
Liz	Fx34(D) N	Fx34(D) A	Fx34(D) B	Fx37(D) N	Fx37(D) N	Fx37(D) N	Off
Tracy	Fx33(D) A	Fx33(D) B	Fx36(M) N	Fx36(M) A	Fx36(M) B	Off	Fx 40(M) N	Fx 40(M) A	Fx 40(M) B

Release test plans

Project Test Plan	Description	Scope	Timeframe
Firefox 37 Firefox for Android 37	QA activities for Firefox 37.	Features in Fx37 Features in Firefox for Android 37	Firefox 37
Firefox 36 Firefox for Android 36	QA activities for Firefox 36.	Features in Fx36 Features in Firefox for Android 36	Firefox 36
Firefox 35 Firefox for Android 35	QA activities for Firefox 35.	Features in Fx35 Features in Firefox for Android 35	Firefox 35
Firefox 34 Firefox for Android 34	QA activities for Firefox 34.	Features in Fx34 Features in Firefox for Android 34	Firefox 34
Automation	Development of automated tests for Desktop Firefox features using Mozmill
Feature Ownership	Testing, Planning, and Bug Triage of new and stable Firefox features

Older test plans are archived here: QA/Past Test Plans

Security Triage Team

The primary purpose of this team is to verify security fixes for Firefox releases. If you want to be someone who is committed to helping with security fix verification during the Beta release cycle, please add your name below. If you are interested in being part of this team but don't have the skills or bugzilla access, please contact Anthony Hughes.

Members

• Matt Wobensmith (irc: mwobensmith)
• Anthony Hughes (irc: ashughes) [Lead]
• Liz Henry (irc: lizzard)

Automation

Test automation!

The Firefox Automation team is a group of passionate and open minded people working on automation for Firefox. We are spread around the world, but we have one collective goal to empower automation even more in the Mozilla project. If you want to get in contact with one of us please check the table below for more information.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Automation

Stability

The Crashkill or Stability team! https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill