People Search

Summary

• Users can now search for people by using the Twitter search engine in the Firefox navigation bar.
• The results list generated by the Twitter search engine should be the same as if the user were searching on http://www.twitter.com

• This feature is available starting with Firefox 8.

Reference

• Feature wiki page - Link

• Tracking bug - Bug 671307

Use Cases to Test

Basic Functional Testing

• Search for people (@name)
• Search for hash-tagged topics (#topic)
• Search for topics in general (any keywords)
• Upgrade Firefox older than 8.0 to the latest Firefox version
• Remove the Twitter search engine from Firefox

Edge Cases

• Search without entering a keyword
• Search with a long keyword
• Restart Firefox while performing a search
• Perform consecutive searches without waiting for the previous search to end
• Perform consecutive searches using different types of keywords
• Perform the same search multiple times
• Change the search engine while performing a search
• Add the Twitter search engine to Firefox by restoring the default engines list
• Upgrade Firefox older than 8.0 with the Twitter address bar search add-on to the latest Firefox version
• Upgrade Firefox after removing the Twitter search engine

Test Cases

• Test cases for this feature can be viewed here. Both new test cases and tests cases already in Litmus are included.

Important Bugs

• Bug 671307 - Add Twitter to the default search plugins (en-US only)
• Bug 690658 - Duplicate twitter search engine listed in search bar

Not Tested

• Other search engines.
• twitter.com specifics (e.g. how old the found tweets are, tweet components etc).

Sign off Criteria

• All test cases were run on the Firefox version the feature is targeted for (Firefox 8.0).
• All the major bugs have been fixed.

Notes:

• Signed off on Firefox 8.0 beta 6 (build ID: 20111031184046).
• Bugs still open list.