Firefox Mobile - Website Compatibility Testing

Website Compatibililty Testing

Please run through the website compatibility form while refering back to here for areas of testing

Areas to Note

• Form helper usage
  • General Functionality
    • Opening the form assistant
    • Parsing through forms
      • Tap Next/Previous button of Form assistant (if they are available)
    • Closing form assistant
      • Single tap outside of it
      • Close Software keyboard (with the function/button/etc provided by keyboard)
• Visit a page that has both mobile and desktop views (eg. www.yahoo.com, m.yahoo.com
• View sites in landscape versus portait orientation
• Use a soft keyboard versus Hard keyboard
• View self-signed cert sites (eg. verisign.com)
• Layout issues
  • Element overlap
  • Areas of the page not shown correctly
  • Excessive background checkerboard
    • Areas of the page where you see a large grey checkerboard
• Page slowdown
  • • Does scrolling, panning, or zooming on a particular page cause the browser and mobile device to slow down?
• Slow script warnings (Popup warning about JavaScript)
• Comparison to other Mobile browsers (e.x stock Android browser)
  • Visit the same site in Firefox for Mobile and visit the same site in a secondary mobile browser
• Sites that trigger notifications
  • Visit sites that attempts to load a popup
  • Visit sites that request to save your password

Browsing Checklist - Examples

Check your email accounts

• Save your login credentials, log out and revisit the page again
• Check you Inbox
• Compose and send an e-mail
• Download an attachment
• Add a calendar event
• Upload a spreadsheet (via Gmail)
• Open their online instant messaging application

Go Shopping

• Visit your favourite shopping website (amazon, bestbuy, ebay)
• Add items to your shopping cart and complete a check-out
• Delete items from your shopping cart
• Test form history on the billing information form
• Test the form helper moving through fields on checkout

Visit your favorite Social Network

• Login and don't save your login credentials
  • Logout and revisit the page by logging in
• Search for your friends
• Open your friends' profiles in a new tab
• Go to 3-4 of your friends' profiles
• Upload and/or Edit Photo Albums, Blog Links, Blog Entries, Comments, Statuses etc.

Check your Bills

• Login and Logout of your favorite banking, utilities (water/electricity/gas) or any other account website (cell phones, cable, etc.) site
• Visit https links
• Check for layout issues

Use a Map

• Get directions from your home to the office
• Search for directions and add the resulting page as a bookmark
• Share the map
• Enable Geolocation if your device supports it

Read the News

• Add a page of your favourite news (i.e., news.google.com, cnn.com, thestar.com, msnbc.com, etc)
• Open multiple tabs stories/articles
• Pan, zoom, scroll through the pages
• Try reading the article in landscape and portrait view
• Try emailing the news article by sharing it in the browser

Visit International sites

• Surf a handful of popular non-english sites (eg. german, arabic, chinese)
• Look for issues around character encoding, display, layouts, fonts

Playing HTML5 games

• Visit popular HTML5 game websites such as:
  • http://html5games.com/
  • http://www.canvasdemos.com/type/games/
• Play a few different games

Visit Reported Sites with Issues (Firefox Input)

• Visit a variety of sites reported on Firefox Input, and indicate if issues persist with the release candidate

Firefox 5.0 Aurora 

• http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=&product=mobile&version=5.0a2