Releases/Firefox 3.6b1/Test Plan:Updates
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Firefox 3.6b1 Software Updates Results
How to Test Partial, Complete, and Fallback Updates
To test partial, complete, and fallback updates:
- Partial: This refers to testing an update from the immediate last release, in this case going from 3.6a1 to 3.6b1
- Complete: This will be checked by the fallback scenario.
- Fallback: For this you first get whatever update the usual way, but you don't apply it. Then you test that it can get fetch another copy of the update if something were to go wrong. You do this by:
- Checking for updates. Choose to apply later. Close application.
- Then go the C:\Documents and Setting\<user profile>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates\0\ folder, in WinXP for instance. Inside you will find a file called 'update.status'.
- If you are in Vista the update.status file will be in ...AppData/Local/Mozilla Firefox/updates/0/
- Open it with a text editor and replace the string from pending to 'failed'. Restart the app and make sure you get another copy of the update.
| Windows 7 (ashughes) | Windows Vista (ashughes) | Windows XP (tracy) | Mac OS X (juanb) | Linux (tracy) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6a1 | en-US (partial+fallback) | en-US (partial+fallback) | en-US (partial+fallback) | en-US (partial+fallback) | en-US (partial+fallback) |
Detailed Results
- path, locale, type (partial, complete, fallback), date: result
- Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X... for example
Betatest Results
Since this is a beta release, betatest and release test will both be pointing to our ftp servers, so it's only necessary to check betatest, before checking the live beta channel.
If you file a bug, please add "[3.6b1]" without the quotes on the Whiteboard field so we can query the bugs filed during this testing cycle.