QA/Firefox3/TestPlan/Places

Linked from 3.0 Test Plan

Overview

This Testplan will focus on the rework of Bookmarks and History as they are transformed into the Places component for Firefox 3. From the Places feature plan:

The primary objectives of this project are to:

   * Improve access to History and Bookmarks
   * Make it easier for people to Bookmark pages 

Secondary objectives include:

   * Consolidating user data formats
   * Providing a platform for using interesting per-URL metadata
   * Improving the capabilities of Live Bookmarks
   * Providing a solid architecture for bookmark sync and remote storage

Scope of planned testing

(What do you plan to test? What is covered by Developer testing? What is not practical to test?)

Coverage includes:

• Priority one feature test cases.

Platform and Configurations

( Describe any particular OS platform, environmental configurations or FireFox configuration considerations)

Major Test Areas

(describe major test areas of the feature and major test cases. Once the plan is done, these major test cases can be fleshed out into litmus or automated test cases)

Schedule/milestones

The milestone schedule continues to be in flux, but this is how it roughly lays out for the next couple of milestones: (using M series where M1 was A1.. M8 should be B1)

• M5-M6: backend of bookmarks and history landed
• M7: performance tweaks and push to parity with 2.0 with protection against data loss
• M8: Places front end to land

References

• Places 3.0 feature plan Chock full of info and links to more info.
• Places section of the PRD
• Places Task List (dev) Kind of old but has useful info and links.
• Places 2006 summit notes; a good quick look at what is expected of Places.
• Devs and QA folk for Places hang out in #Places on irc.
• This page linked from Firefox 3.0 test plan