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Firefox 37 RC (build 1) Test Plan

• Release Week: March 23rd, 2015. The plan is to be shipped on Wednesday March 25th 2015 (Release Calendar)
• QA Contact: Robert Kaiser; Florin Mezei
• IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org#qa ping kairo; FlorinMezei
• Build 1: Firefox 37 RC build 1 | changeset | (ID: 20150324194038)

QE recommendation regarding the quality of the build

Recommendation based on results from manual testing	TBD

Risks with this Beta and ways to mitigate them through testing

• 1. Video/Audio
  • Additional Video/Audio fixes landed in RC (e.g. https://bugzil.la/1145585)
  • Testing to ensure that the YouTube playback works without major regressions
  • Will be covered by Sanity testing on the YouTube default player
• 2. Webmail
  • Fix landed for bug: https://bugzil.la/1146883
  • Testing to ensure that the fix above did not cause regressions for most common webmail clients
  • Will be covered by Sanity testing
• 3. WebGL
  • Graphics fix landed for bug: https://bugzil.la/1137716
  • Testing to ensure that the fix above did not cause regressions for WebGL content
  • Will be covered by Sanity testing
• 4. Web Compatibility
  • Testing to ensure that the most common web sites work without issues
  • Will be covered by Sanity testing

Features

See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview

Feature	Owner	Status	Details	Test Plan
New Search	Petruta Rasa	[ON TRACK]	Follow up on additional fixes for the New Search entered in Firefox 34 - NO final QA sign-off	-
In-content preferences	Camelia Badau	DROPPED FROM 37	No more work required	Test Plan
Flash Protected Mode disabling	Andrei Vaida	DROPPED FROM 37	No more work required	-
EME	Bogdan Maris	DROPPED FROM 37	No more work required	-
MSE for YoutTube	Bogdan Maris	[ON TRACK]	Constantly monitoring for new issues and Verification of important fixes - NO final QA sign-off	-

Results

Bug Summary

• New bugs

Bugzilla query error

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• New bugs to this Beta

• Known Issues

Full Query

ID	Summary	Status	Resolution
827042	[Regression Firefox v17 -> v18] Flash video stop playing if the context menu is visible	RESOLVED	WONTFIX
1140729	DASH-IF test player can't load 4K video	RESOLVED	WORKSFORME
1142992	Youtube video stops after some minutes (with 1080p)	RESOLVED	WORKSFORME

3 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

Regression Tests

• Tests are run from a Full Regression set, created before Beta 2, to cover areas most affected by fixes in current Beta (Firefox 37)
• Regression tests are run over the interval Beta 2 -> Release
• Tests to run for each Beta are picked to cover areas most affected by fixes since previous Beta (if there are no such areas, tests are picked randomly from the Full Beta Regression set).
• Tests are available in Mozilla Moztrap.
• In case of failure in any regression tests, bugs need to be raised ASAP before proceeding to the exploratory testing.

Regression tests:

• Executed (in previous beta builds)
  • [PASS] Open and Print Common File Formats
  • [FAIL] Customize toolbars
  • [FAIL] Play WebGL games
  • [FAIL] Play WebGL animations
  • [PASS] Breakpad End-to-End Functionality
  • [FAIL] Desktop Firefox Web Compatibility
  • [FAIL] Play different video formats
  • [FAIL] Play various audio formats
  • [FAIL] Desktop Firefox Add-on Compatibility
  • [FAIL] Browsing secure sites
  • [FAIL] Show PDF
  • [FAIL] Desktop Firefox Plugin Compatibility
  • [PASS] Mac OSX Signing Verification
  • [PASS] Verify update applies with root owned files
  • [PASS] Mac OSX 32-bit Mode
  • [PASS] Firefox scrolling & zooming
  • [FAIL] Session Restore smoketest

• Remaining (for next beta builds)

   NONE     

Exploratory Testing

• Testing is performed around areas most affected by fixes since the previous Beta (in cases when there are no Regression tests to cover these areas, or those tests have already been run as part of the Full Beta Regression set)

Platform	Assignee	Result: report
Windows 7 64-bit (GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610)	Florin Mezei	[ON TRACK]
Windows 7 64-bit (GPU: Intel HD Graphics 2500)	Camelia Badau	[ON TRACK]
Windows 8.1 32-bit (GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7700)	Vasilica Mihasca	[ON TRACK]
Mac OS X 10.9.5 (GPU: Intel Iris Pro 1024 MB)	Cornel Ionce	[ON TRACK]
Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit (GPU: AMD Radeon HD 5450)	Catalin Varga	[ON TRACK]

Tested Area	Testing Type	Results (report)
Video/Audio	Sanity testing	IN PROGRESS
Webmail	Sanity testing	IN PROGRESS
Webmail	Sanity testing	IN PROGRESS
Webmail	Sanity testing	IN PROGRESS

Branch Bug Fix Verifications

• Firefox (37) Bugs

• Verified bugs

Bugzilla query error

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Status tags

• [NOT STARTED] - {{mnotstarted}} - little or no work has started on this task
• [ON TRACK] - {{mok}} - task is actively being worked on and those assigned feel comfortable and confident in the quality of the build.
• [DONE] - {{mdone}} - task is completed and those assigned feel comfortable and confident in the quality of the build.
• [AT RISK] - {{mrisk}}- blocking bug / high number of bugs / other confidence-shakers makes us feel not comfortable with the quality of the build.
• [IN PROGRESS] - {{mprog}} - actively being tested on
• [INVESTIGATION NEEDED] - {{minvest}} - more investigation needed