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

Acceptance Criteria

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

Full Query

ID	Priority	Summary	Status	Assigned to
1172998	--	Android M runtime permissions: ask for WiFi Permissions only after user opts-in to stumble	RESOLVED
1195663	--	Investigate: Disabling 'Storage' permission (Android M)	RESOLVED
1205216	--	API 23: SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW permission is not granted automatically and can't be requested	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1216529	--	Request Camera permission at runtime	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1216530	--	Request Contacts permission at runtime	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1216532	--	Request Location permission at runtime	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1216535	--	Request Microphone permission at runtime	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1216537	--	Request Storage permission at runtime	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1220671	--	UX for Runtime permissions	RESOLVED
1234799	--	Granting permissions when running UI/robocop tests	RESOLVED	Geoff Brown [:gbrown]
1235347	--	Helper class for checking and requesting runtime permissions	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1235352	--	Add JavaScript module to check and request runtime permissions	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1240703	--	ScreenshotObserver requires READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission	RESOLVED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1241887	--	Nightly/Aurora updater requires Storage permission	VERIFIED	Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)
1241907	--	Use "pm grant" to grant permissions before running browser tests	RESOLVED	Geoff Brown [:gbrown]

15 Total; 0 Open (0%); 14 Resolved (93.33%); 1 Verified (6.67%);

Still issues

N/A

Bug fixed

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.