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Fennec (Firefox for Android) 18.0.2 Crash-Fix Release Test Plan

• Release: February 7th, 2012
• QA Contact: Aaron Train; Kevin Brosnan
• IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org#qa ping AaronMT; kbrosnan; ioanachiorean;
• Builds: Fennec (Firefox for Android) 18.0.2 | changeset | pushlog

Firefox for Android 18.0.2 Crash-Fix Testing & Verification

This test-plan is focused around the patch applied to mozilla-release (18), mozilla-beta (19), mozilla-aurora (20), mozilla-central (21) in bug 838603 that fixes a startup crash introduced by a an issue with the Android blocklist mechanism.

• HG change-sets:
  • mozilla-inbound: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/e65517972de2
  • mozilla-central:
  • mozilla-aurora: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/a903b918e169
  • mozilla-beta: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/0d42c11c4220
  • mozilla-release: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/912b9ffcbaad

• Steps to Reproduce the start-up crash
  • bug 838603 [comment #28] (please replace with equivalent mozilla-release builds)
  • Primarily going from Fennec 16 (Crash) →Fennec 17 (Crash) → Fennec 18 (Fixed)

• References for testing against blocklist staging
  • Changing Block-listing Staging URL: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Testing#Testing_Staged_Blocklist
  • Changing Block-listing preferences on Android: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Testing#Testing_on_Android

Results

A pass can be given when there is no start-up crash [1]; and tester has verified the about:config preference [2] value

• [1] ###!!! ABORT: OpenGL-accelerated layers are a hard requirement on this platform. Cannot continue without support for them.: file ../../../widget/xpwidgets/nsBaseWidget.cpp, line 829
• [2] layers.acceleration.force-enabled

Negative Testing

• On a working build; toggle layers.acceleration.force-enabled to false; what is the output?
  • Reverting the force enable; re-triggers the crash (build pointing at bad blocklist)
  • New profile (build pointing at fixed blocklist), builds work as expected

Smoketests

Light verification tests (or smoketests) will be first run when the builds are ready. Tests are available on Mozilla Moztrap under the 18.0 smoketest suite. In any case of failure in any Smoketest, blockers need to be raised ASAP before proceeding to the BFTs.

Detailed Smoketest results

AppThwack Automation

Automated installation, uninstallation, and Android Monkeyrunner tests against uploaded ARM6 and ARMv7 builds; primarily useful for detecting startup crashes, incompatibilities, install-times and UI oddities

Detailed AppThwack Results