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Firefox 3 M8 Test Results

Contact Info

Build: Jon Duinn (joduinn)
QA: Tony (tchung), marcia

Schedule

Code Freeze

9/5

Code Build

9/12

QA test signoff

ETA 9/14

Release Notes

M8 Release Notes

Builds

• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/1.9a8-candidates/rc1

Strategy

• Areas Covered:
  • Smoketests (results at: http://people.mozilla.com/~twalker/trunkresultslinks.html)
  • BFTs
  • M8 and past focused Tests
  • bug verifications
  • Spotchecks (includes standard plugins, top sites, look and feel)

• Areas Not Covered:
  • FFTs
  • Top Sites
  • L10N
  • Distribution
  • Top Sites
  • Specific Addons/Extensions/Themes
  • Updates

Tests are ran against en-US locale only.

Test Results

Types of Tests	Win XP	Win Vista (Vista Litmus Test Suite)	Mac	Linux
Smoketest	Tomcat	Abillings	marcia - PASS	juanb
BFT	Tomcat	Abillings	marcia - 1/2 PPC and 1/2 Intel	tchung - PASS
Focused Testing	stephend	marcia	stephend	tchung

Detailed Results

• Mac Smoketest - PASS
  • Intel Mac
  • Testing Date: 9/12/07
  • Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091211 GranParadiso/3.0a8
  • Bugs filed during smoketest:
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395975
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395972
  • Bugs seen during smoketest
    • Preferences Panel quakes when you move between sections. Josh said bug is on file and targeted for M9, although I could not find that bug on the list of M9 bugs.

• Linux Smoketest (juanb) - Pass
  • Bugs found so far:
    • bug 395994 wrong rss feed icon
    • bug 395990 (duped) form completion box unshaded in Linux
  • Migration story is unclear. Only cookies are imported from Seamonkey, for example. Should we worry about migration in Linux? How much should we worry?

• Linux BFT (tchung) - PASS
  • Issues Found:
    • Report a broken website link is still broken. Bug 385935
    • AJAX is still broken on backbase website. Fails litmus case 4312. Bug 390859

• Mac FT (stephend) - PASS
  • Issues found:
    • Same as Marcia (we collaborated on most)
  • Areas tested in addition to the above:
    • Location Bar (starring/tagging/bookmarking/autocomplete)
    • Flash r60 plugin
      • Crash bug 395814