QA/Fennec/Android 6.0+: Support for runtime permissions

Overview

Purpose

The purpose of this wiki is to serve as a general test plan for verifying that there is added support for runtime permissions in Android 6.0 and up

Ownership

Developer contacts:

• nobody

QA:

• Flaviu Cos irc: flaviu

Overall Status

[LANDED] Nightly 48

[LANDED] Aurora 47

[LANDED] Beta 46

Testing Summary

Scope of testing

The testing will be focus on

• Add support for requesting permissions at runtime

Environments

Testing will be performed on devices having the following Android versions:

• Phones
  • 6.0
• Tablet
  • 6.0

Requirement

• Support runtime permission for all 5 dangerous permissions:
  • Camera
  • Contacts
  • Location
  • Microphone
  • Storage

User stories

• As an Android M+ user, I can decide at runtime what permissions I grant Firefox access to

Test Cases

• Test Case title

Testing days

Date: 2016-01-18

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-01-19

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-01-25

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-02-03

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-02-23

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-03-15

• Exploratory testing on Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-04-19

• Exploratory testing on Beta 12 and Latest Nightly with Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)

Date: 2016-05-19

• Exploratory testing on Firefox 46.0.1 and Firefox 47 Beta 6 with Nexus 9 (Android 6.0.1)

Bug Work

Tracking bugs

• bugs to track the feature

Bugzilla query error

Array ( [type] => error [message] => http-bad-status [params] => Array ( [0] => 406 [1] => Not Acceptable ) ) 1

Still issues

N/A

Signoff

Criteria

• Android M users are asked for permissions not during installation but at runtime
• Android L and below will continue to be asked during installation to grant permissions
  • More info: https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting.htmled

Results

Nightly testing

• There were no blockers found while testing this feature.

Aurora testing

• There were no blockers found while testing this feature.

Beta testing

• There were no blockers found while testing this feature.