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Firefox 17 Test Plan
Summary
| Milestone | Firefox 17 |
| Status | Currently in Aurora -- merging to Beta on October 9, 2012 |
| Lead | Anthony Hughes (irc: ashughes) |
| 2nd | Juan Becerra (irc: juanb) |
| Builds | [ftp] [http] [web] |
The following is the test plan for Firefox 17 from Nightly through to Release. Use this document as a reference for what is being tested to validate the quality of Firefox 17. After the release this document will be used as an archive of what was done to validate this release.
If you have some free time, please pick a task below and get in touch with one of the leads.
Details
The following is a description of the tasks which need to be completed throughout this release.
- 2012-07-16: {{|}} Nightly Merge
- 2012-08-27: {{|}} Aurora Merge
- 2012-10-08: {{|}} Pre-Beta feature sign-offs
- 2012-10-11: {{|}} Beta 1
- 2012-10-18: {{|}} Beta 2
- 2012-10-25: {{|}} Beta 3
- 2012-11-01: {{|}} Beta 4
- 2012-11-08: {{|}} Beta 5
- 2012-11-15: {{|}} Beta 6
- 2012-11-19: {{|}} Release Candidate
- 2012-11-20: {{|}} Final
Nightly
Merge
- Functional Automation - result
- Update Spotchecks - result
Features
See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview
Features
See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview
| Feature | Owner | Status | Tests |
| Improve display of location bar results | Virgil Dicu | On track | |
| Firefox Social Integration | Anthony Hughes | On track | |
| HTML Tree Editor | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | ||
| Silent Update not now prompt | Ioana Budnar | Release target removed. |
Endurance Automation
The purpose of this section is to track any potential memory regressions via spikes reported in the dashboard.
- What to Do
- Check the Charts
- If you see an anomalous event (ie. spike or dip), get the report for the specific event
- If the event happens twice in a row, file a bug under Mozmill Tests
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the issue
- Record the event in this wiki below
- Current Status (Mihaela Velimiroviciu) - Last Updated
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Functional Automation
The purpose of this section is to track any potential functional regressions via results reported in the dashboard.
- What to Do
- Check the testrun reports
- If you see any failing tests, check that there are not any bugs on file for it already
- If not, file a bug under Mozmill Tests
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the issue
- Record the event in this wiki below
- Current Status (Vlad Maniac / Alex Lakatos) - Last Updated
Bug Triage
The purpose of this section is to triage UNCONFIRMED incoming bugs.
- What to Do
- Check the UNCONFIRMED bugs
- Test the bugs in the latest Firefox Nightly
- If you can't reproduce the bug, ask for the reporter to provide more information
- If you reproduce the bug, add your testing information and mark the bug NEW
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the NEW issue
- Current Status (Vlad Ghetiu / Virgil Dicu) - Last Updated
Aurora Merge
- NOTE - OSX 10.5 should not be able to install nor update to Firefox 17
| Builds | nightly |
| Changeset | tip (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [DONE] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- [ON TRACK] Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
| Platform | PASS: report |
| Windows XP | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Windows 8 32-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
| Windows 8 64-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
| Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
| Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing
| Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Web Compatibility | OSX 10.5 EOL |
| Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A |
| Windows 7 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A |
| Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 | N/A |
| Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
| Ubuntu 12.04 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 | N/A |
Plug-in Compatibility
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- 11.4 Release (make sure you can autoupdate)
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- QuickTime
Web Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
OSX 10.5 EOL
Verify the following:
- Mac OSX 10.5 cannot download Firefox 17 (I'm not sure if this is scoped but try it anyway)
- Mac OSX 10.5 cannot start Firefox 17
- Mac OSX 10.5 cannot update to Firefox 17
- The build can be downloaded and installed
- Aurora didn't start, showing a incompatibility message
- The update channel seems to be close so I didn't manage to perform an update
Feature Sign-offs
- Log in to moztrap.mozilla.org
- Select Run Tests
- Select Product: Desktop Firefox
- Select Versions: 17
- Select Runs: Firefox 17 Aurora Merge Feature sign off
| Feature | Owner | Win32 | Mac | Linux |
| Improve display of location bar results | Virgil Dicu | PASS | PASS | PASS |
| Firefox Social Integration | Anthony Hughes | PASS | PASS | PASS |
- Details
Report any detailed results or bugs here...
Update Testing
Spotcheck updates from a previous Aurora to Aurora 17.
| Platform | Auroratest | Aurora |
| Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
| Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
| Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
| Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-30 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
- Issues
Bug Triage
- VERIFYME (5): verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (139): triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (6): triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (8): triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 24/139
- WONTVERIFY: 3/139
- HELPWANTED: 9/139
Beta 1
| Builds | FTP, HTTP |
| ID | |
| Changeset | ID (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- {{ |}} Automated Testing
- {{ |}} Manual Testing
- {{ |}} Update Testing
- {{ |}} Bug Triage
- {{ |}} Peer Sign-off
- {{ |}} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
| Platform | Results ([ report]) |
| Windows XP | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows Vista | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 7 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 7 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 8 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 8 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.6 | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.7 | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.8 | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing
Plug-in Compatibility
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- 11.3 Release
- Flash 11.4 beta (make sure you can autoupdate)
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- AVG Safe Search 12.0.0.1912 is not compatible with Firefox 15 beta.
- AVG Security Toolbar can't be installed on Win XP - we get a blue screen while installing it.
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Not currently available. Investigating if we can get this software.
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
- The toolbar can't be installed on Firefox.
Web Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Mac OSX 32-on-64-bit
Stub Installer
Breakpad End-to-End
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing
- Partial:
- Complete:
| Platform | Releasetest ([ report]) | Beta ([ report]) |
| Windows XP | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows Vista | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 7 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 7 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 8 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Windows 8 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.6 | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.7 | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Mac OS X 10.8 | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
| Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | result - YYYY-MM-DD | result - YYYY-MM-DD |
- Issues
Bug Triage
- VERIFYME (3): verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (221): triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (3): triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (3): triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 50/221
- WONTVERIFY: 21/221
- HELPWANTED: 14/221
Feature Sign-off
Feature owners to test and sign-off overall quality of their features following uplift to Beta.
| Feature | Owner | Win32 | Mac | Linux |
| Improve display of location bar results | Virgil Dicu | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
| HTML tree editor | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
| Firefox Social Integration | Anthony Hughes | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
New Issues
3 Total; 1 Open (33.33%); 2 Resolved (66.67%); 0 Verified (0%);
Known Issues
6 Total; 0 Open (0%); 5 Resolved (83.33%); 1 Verified (16.67%);