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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Test Results

Related Pages

Links to separate test results. Some are referenced further below.

• Extensions Test Results
• Update snippets Test Results
• L10n Spotchecks Test Results
• Accessibility Test Results
• Beta 4 Testday Results
• QA Beta 4 Relnotes Tracking

Contact Info

PM: Mike Beltzner (beltzner)
Build: John O'Duinn (joduinn)
QA: Tony (tchung)

Schedule

Code Freeze

2/28

Code Build

ETA 3/3

QA test signoff

ETA 3/10

Strategy

• Areas Covered:
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs
  • Beta4 and past focused Tests
  • Top Plugins
  • Update snippets from Alpha X, Beta X -> Beta 4
  • Memory Leak Testing (handled by Tomcat on debug builds)
  • P1 L10N spotchecks
  • Beta 4 bug verifications
  • Beta 4 Testday

• Areas Not Covered:
  • localization (String changes) - 3rd party will cover
  • Distribution
  • Major Updates

Test Results

Types of Tests	Win XP	Win Vista	Mac Tiger	Mac Leopard	Linux
Smoketest	marcia - result	marcia - result	Tomcat - result	Tomcat - result	Tomcat - result
BFT	Tomcat (running leak tests on FFT) - result	Tomcat (running leak tests) - result	Tomcat (running leak tests on FFT) - result	Marcia - result	Tracy - result
Top Websites Testing (see below)	Juanb - result	N/A	Juanb - result	N/A	Tracy - result
Updates Testing (see below)	Tomcat - result	Juanb - result	Tomcat - result	Marcia - result	Tchung - result
l10N Pri 1 locales	Tomcat - result	N/A	Tchung - result	N/A	Tracy - result
Bug Verifications	Everyone - result	Everyone - result	Everyone - result	Everyone - result	Everyone - result

Top Sites Testing

Select the top 50 sites, and run through a combination of various web applications.

• Alexa Top 50
• Banking and financial institutions

Testcases

• Visit various sites on the list, verifying web compatibility
• Detect Layout issues, Font issues, formatting problems, broken functionality
  • Some baseline comparisons is to use Fx 2.0.0.11, Safari, and Trunk nightly builds
• Change browser font sizes, languages and verify web compatibility
• Operate end to end functionality of a website. Examples:
  • track an auction item on ebay
  • save a book on amazon checkout
  • register for a new email account on Yahoo Mail
  • Create a document on Google docs
  • Visit a secure site and perform online banking

Updates Testing

For b4, we will be doing updates of all Alpha and Beta users to Beta 4. Tests will include different locales for beta 1, but only en-US for all past versions. We will be checking partial updates, complete updates, and failed status.

Will be available on betatest, releasetest, and beta channels

• Betatest channel - result
• Releasetest channel - result
• Beta channel (live) - result

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

L10N P1 Spotchecks

Visual inspection: Go through the P1 list of locales, and run a spotcheck to see if everything visually looks fine. Refer to L10N Requirements for more specifics.

Automation inspection: supported locales will be ran through Minotaur, and results will be reviewed by axel and mic.

Axel's Localization Status Page

P1 Locales to be tested:

• French (fr) result
• Chinese (zh-CN) result
• German (de) result
• Japanese (ja) result
• Spanish (es-ES) result
• Netherlands (nl) result
• Italian (it) result
• Finnish (fi) result
• Hindi (pa-IN) result

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

Bug Verifications

Bugs that are marked RESOLVED FIXED that are checked in for beta. Please verify them.

Testday

A beta 4 testday will be held and call for the community support to assist with testing. Activities include executing litmus testcases, bug verifications, and focus on the new feature areas that are being implemented. More can be found on QMO.

Testday results are posted here.

Live Spot Checks

Live site downloads for Beta4, after bits are pushed out. Please cover en-US, and 2 or 3 additional Tier 1 locales as well. Pay attention to the following areas:

• Check for signed installer and applications (windows only)
• Firstrun page, whatsnew page, Home page, Search plugin
• Installer, uninstall
• General spotchecks and browser functionality

Windows XP -> abillings - result
Windows Vista -> stephend - result
Mac Tiger -> Juan - result
Mac Leopard -> Marcia - result
Linux -> stephend - result

Top Issues Reported in Hendrix Against Firefox 3 Beta 4

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Top Issues in b3 in Reporter

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