Extension Manager/QA/Feature Test Plans/Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings

Test plan for feature Extension Manager: Third party add-on warnings

Overview

• Test Extension Manager's Third party add-on warnings in Firefox Beta and Release
• QA Goal: sign-off for Firefox Release

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Status

Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps
Stage	Landed
Status	Complete
Release target	Firefox 8
Health	OK
Status note	Feature made it in to Firefox 8

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QA Team

• Vlad Maniac (irc: vladmaniac)
• Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
• Virgil Dicu (irc: VirgilDicu)
• Henrik Skupin (irc: whimboo)

Feature tracking page

Third Party Add-on Warnings Page

Feature tracking bug

bug 476430

Testing activities

Exploratory testing across platforms

• Use Case
  • A user installs a third party application that installs an add-on in different locations (Registry, User profile, Application Directory) for Firefox.
  • When starting Firefox for the first time, a new tab should be displayed for each third party add-on installed in Firefox-every tab should contain the third party warning as specified here: Link
  • Selecting Continue will disable the Add-on in Add-on Manager. To enable the Add-on, a user must check the "Allow Installation" checkbox and restart the browser.

The list of test cases used can be found here: Test cases

The following list contains third party add-ons used for testing: Link

Examples: Winamp toolbar, Avast, Div X,+Web Player, Babylon Toolbar, Yontoo

• Windows XP
  • PASS
• Windows 7
  • PASS
• Ubuntu 11.10 x64
  • PASS
• Mac OS X 10.6
  • PASS

Feature integration in add-ons manager and interactions with other features

• Identify other features in interaction with Third party add-on warnings

Fixed bug verifications

• Identified bugs for verification: bugs affecting the feature
  • bug 670033
  • bug 666437 - VERIFIED FIXED
  • bug 658530 - VERIFIED FIXED
  • bug 680113 - VERIFIED FIXED

Automation

Setting goal to have mozmill automated tests for this feature under the add-ons manager component

Feature QA sign-off criteria

• No major bugs open.
• Only one minor layout issue was found-it does not influence the functionality of the third party tab warning Bug699435
• Test cases have been run on all OSs.
• The third party warning is displayed as specified in Link