QA/Community

Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Wiki!

As our Mozilla community grows, this page will provide a central place for QA volunteers to help us better organize, plan, and execute our community testing. Any documentation or information that you feel will benefit our QA efforts is welcome here.

Hot Events

• Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 Community Test Day - Friday, July 14, 2006
• Bon Echo Community Test Day - Friday, July 28, 2006

Who We Are

Aside from the few of us working at Mozilla, there are many volunteers that help us with Mozilla QA. In order to get to know each other, feel free to add an entry to Mozilla Testers and tell us more about yourself. How long have you been a Mozilla volunteer and/or user? Where are you from and what do you do when you're not testing/hacking for Mozilla?

How Can You Help?

• Most of our updates and calls for help will be posted at the Mozilla QA Blog
• Tell us how we can work together better by sharing your thoughts and ideas in the Suggestion Box

Community Events

• Test Days - We will have regular Basic Functional Testing (BFT) events during important stages of our release cycles. They will provide you with a great way to get involved and give both Firefox and Thunderbird a complete workout while you test all the latest features and bug fixes. The full suite of BFT tests can be found through Litmus.
  • Upcoming Test Days
    • Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 Community Test Day - Friday, July 14, 2006
    • Bon Echo Community Test Day - Friday, July 28, 2006
    • The Community Daily Testing Project will begin beta evaluation 2006-02-13 with the project going public 1-2 weeks later. Participants in the beta evaluation will be in house Mozilla QA and several community testers invited based on their participation in recent test days. Please go to the Daily Testing Project page for more information.
  • Previous Test Days
    • Bon Echo Community Test Day - Friday, June 23, 2006
    • Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 Community Test Day - Thursday, May 11, 2006
    • Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.x Community Test Day, Friday, April 28, 2006
    • Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 Community Test Day, March 23, 2006
    • Firefox 1.0.8 Community Test Day, February 22, 2006
    • Firefox 1.5.0.1 RC1 Community Test Day - Jan 19th, 2006
    • Firefox 1.5.0.1 Community Smoketest Day - Jan 6th, 2006
    • Thunderbird 1.5 focused l10n testing day - December 20, 2005
    • ThunderBird 1.5 RC2 Community Test Day - Dec 13th, 2005
    • Firefox 1.5 RC3 Community Test Day - Nov 18th, 2005
    • Software Update (August 25 or 26, 2005)

• Bug Days - Every Tuesday, we will be gathering in #qa to focus our efforts on bugs in Bugzilla and testing some of the latest builds.

• Future Events?
  • As Mozilla continues to innovate the web experience through new features, we will need to make sure we thoroughly test any new functionality introduced in Firefox and Thunderbird. In order to ensure we catch any regressions and identify critical bugs quickly, we will occassionally have special New Feature Testing (NFT) events. When we do, we will post to the QA blog and also provide a test plan here that includes more information about the feature, any current bugs, test cases, and instructions on how to provide feedback.

QA Tools

• Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent (aka Talkback)
• Litmus

mozilla.org Archives

• Sites that would be helpful to add to QMO
  • http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/bugathon.html