QA/Firefox3/TestPlan

Overview

The goal of this Overall Test Plan is to lay out our testing strategy, communicate it to others, and track the status.

Major QA Activities:

• Litmus Cleanup
• New feature testing - see below
• L10n testing - TBD
• Milestone testing - TBD

[Firefox 3 Central]

Firefox 3 Requirements and Ownership

• Firefox 3 TestPlan Tracking page (Google Spreadsheet)
• Fx 3 PRD Wiki page and feature detail page.

Test Plan Areas

Key: L = Large (3-6 weeks) M = Medium (2-4 weeks) S = Small (1-2 weeks)

Feature test plan template

• Add ons
  • Addons Test Plan
  • QA Contact: [tchung]
  • Size: M
  • Add-on management system, plugin management system, localized user-facing addon text, configuration, updates, Installation, Discovery, FUEL 0.2

• Content Handling
  • Microformat Test Plan
  • Web Application Test Plan
  • Download Manager Test Plan
  • QA Contact: [ctalbert, tomcat]
  • Size: L
  • microformats, Content Type Processing, download manager (needs definition), MIME type support, User Interface, Media Plugins (needs definition)

• Partner Distribution
  • QA Contact: [tracy, ctalbert]
  • Size: M
  • High-Touch/Low-Touch distros, regression, updates, test automation

• Gecko / Platform
  • QA Contact: [ martijn, marcia]
  • Size: M
  • Standards Compliance, PDF Save, Native Controls, Offline Apps, GFX/Widget, Layout, Dom, Networking, Platform, Accessibility (At Risk)

• OS Platform Integration
  • QA Contact: [Tomcat, marcia, ss(airbag/brakepad)]
  • Size: M
  • Vista Support (At Risk), MSI bundling, Airbag / Brakepad, parental controls (At Risk), Notification

• Mac OS Platform Integration (includes Gecko)
  • Mac OS Integration Test Plan
  • QA Contact: [Tomcat, marcia]
  • Size: M
  • Leopard support, Cocoa implementation, widgets, form controls, Growl Integration on Mac

• Places
  • QA Contact: [Tracy, ABillings, juanb (?)]
  • Size: L
  • Bookmarks, History Indexing, Data Management, User Interface, Extensibility, Performance

• RSS
  • QA Contact: [Jay, juanb]
  • Size: S
  • RSS feeds, readers

• Search / Tabbed Browsing / Visual Refresh
  • Search Tab / Visual Refresh Test Plan
  • QA Contact: [ Jay ]
  • Size: S
  • User Interfacing, Animations, Data management

• Security, Privacy / Password, Identity
  • Security / Privacy Test Plan
  • QA Contact: [Tomcat, juanb]
  • Size: L
  • password management, Phishing protection, Private web browsing, Blacklisting (At Risk), password Manager, Password Security

• User Support
  • QA Contact: [ss, tomcat]
  • Size: S
  • Help content, Reporter, feedback, Customization options

• L10N Tests
  • QA Contact: [ctalbert, tchung]
  • Size: S
  • test automation, new locales

Fx3 Test Results

Tests results in this section are recorded at each milestone. Current locale coverage is en-US only. They will be covering:

• Smoketests
• BFTs
• FFTs
• Focused testing (Test areas that have landed)

Alpha 4 Results
Alpha 5 Results
Alpha 6 Results
Beta 1 Results
Beta 2 Results

Fx3 Daily Litmus Smoketest Schedule and Results

Daily Smoketest Results

Fx3 Test Planning Notes

Test Planning Notes

Firefox 3 Extensions

For Firefox 2 we had Bug 353206 as extension Tracking bug.

The following extensions were never fixed from their extension compatibly authors to be able to install in Firefox 2.

• Slim Extension List [1]
• Bookmarks Synchronizer 3 [2]
• AutoMarks [3]
• Extended Link Properties [4]
• Snapper [5]
• Cacheout[6]
• Resize Search Box [7]
• superT 0.7.9.1 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2224
• Reveal extension [8]