Releases/Firefox 71/Test Plan
Contents
Summary
The purpose of this page is to track the testing of Firefox 69 from Nightly to Release, and post Release if needed.
Release schedule
- Release Scheduling calendar
- Rapid Release calendar
Status meetings
The Channel Status meeting is used to raise quality concerns with the Release Management team.
- When: every Tuesday (10:00 AM Pacific) and Thursday (08:00 AM Pacific)
- Where: ReleaseCoordination (Zoom)
- IRC backchannel: #planning
- Meeting notes: notes archive
QA points of contact
Communication channels
- Slack: #qa-coordination
Firefox for Desktop
- Reporting to: Tom Grabowski, Tania Maity
- Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
- Team Leads: Brindusa Tot
- Offices: Romania (EEST), Argentina (GMT-3)
- Responsible for: new feature testing, Nightly build readiness, Nightly build regression testing, bug triage, bug verification, bug investigation
- Reporting to: Tom Grabowski, Tania Maity
- Softvision Manager: Andrei Vaida
- Team Leads: Bogdan Maris, Cornel Ionce
- Office: Romania (EEST)
- Responsible for: new feature testing, Beta build readiness, Developer Edition build readiness, ESR build readiness, RC build readiness, Dot release build readiness, Chemspill build readiness, bug verification, bug investigation
Firefox for Mobile
- Reporting to: No-Jun Park
- Softvision Manager: Ioana Chiorean
- Team Lead: Sorina Florean
- Office: Romania (EEST)
- Responsible for: todo
- Reporting to: No-Jun Park
- Softvision Manager: Ioana Chiorean
- Team Lead: Catalin Suciu
- Office: Romania (EEST)
- Responsible for: todo
AMO, WebExtensions
- Reporting to: Krupa Raj
- Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
- Team Leads: Victor Carciu, Madalin Cotetiu
- Office: Romania (EEST)
- Responsible for: AMO feature testing, AMO weekly release, AMO Sanity, AMO bug verification, Webextensions features, Webextensions bug triage and verification, Telemetry
Experiments, Normandy, Subscription services, and other Firefox features
- Reporting to: Krupa Raj
- Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
- Team Leads: Paul Oiegas
- Office: Romania (EEST)
- Responsible for: testing Experiments, Normandy, Experimenter website, Activity Stream, Screenshots, Send (Web & Android) and Lockbox Desktop.
QA activities
New feature readiness
All new features tested by QA and shipping with Firefox 71 are available here.
The feature testing process followed by QA is available here.
Bug fix verification
- Daily verification of uplifted bugs - these are uplifts, triaged daily and verified under ~48hrs
- Ongoing verification of Nightly bugs - this is the general bug verification done throughout the Nightly cycle; it sometimes overlaps with uplifts verification; also involves active monitoring of
qe-verify?
bugs - Ongoing verification of Beta bugs - this is the general bug verification done throughout the Beta cycle; it sometimes overlaps with uplifts verification; also involves active monitoring of
qe-verify?
bugs - On-demand verification of bugs - these are special requests (ideally coming in through PI, but also through Bugzilla
needinfo?
, chat or emails) - Periodical verification of security bugs - these are post-critsmash bugs, triaged and verified ~every 2wks
Unconfirmed bug triage
This is the triage conducted by Engineering QA.
Security bug triage
This is the post-CritSmash triage conducted by Engineering QA (on Nightly) and Release QA (on Beta, Release, ESR).
Bug investigation
This is the daily check and investigation of new regressionwindow-wanted
bugs, conducted by Engineering QA and Release QA.
Nightly 72 milestones
[early/mid cycle] Nightly build readiness
Scope: assess build readiness for shipping to Beta by testing Nightly periodically and providing a list of issues (if any) that need to be addressed before the merge (more on this).
- Build: 72.0a1 (commit, ID) - NOT STARTED
- [DONE] Functional testing (manual) → report
- New bugs
- Regressions: --
- Non-regressions: --
- Known bugs
- High-impact: --
- Low/medium-impact: [link bug list]
- New bugs
- [DONE] Functional testing (manual) → report
- Build: 72.0a1 (commit, ID) - GREEN
- [DONE] Functional testing (manual) → report
- New bugs
- Regressions: --
- Non-regressions: --
- Known bugs
- High-impact: --
- Low/medium-impact: [link bug list]
- New bugs
- [DONE] Functional testing (manual) → report
[prior to merge] Nightly regression testing
- Build: 72.0a1 (commit, ID) - Sign off_Status
- [NOT STARTED] Regression testing (manual) → [report]
- New bugs
- Regressions: ID1, ID2, IDn
- Non-regressions: ID1, ID2, IDn
- Known bugs
- High-impact: ID1, ID2, IDn
- Low/medium-impact: [bug list]
- New bugs
- [NOT STARTED] Regression testing (manual) → [report]
[optional] [prior to merge] Nightly new feature smoke testing
Note: this is optional, based on available QA bandwidth.
Beta/DevEd 71 milestones
Developer Edition build readiness
Scope: assess build stability periodically (around every 2 weeks) to make sure we are shipping quality products to our Developer Edition users from the aurora update channel (more on this).
- Build: 71.0b1-build1 (e1479d4d94da, 20191014171118) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Plug-ins and Startup and Profile → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b2-build1 (5d743fd9d6bd, 20191016150816) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Audio/Video and Crash Reporting → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b7-build1 (8436f40e05c0, 20191104135555) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Build Branding , Build Configuration , User Profile , Build interface , Build stability and functionality , Sync , Default Browser → TestRail
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b11-build1 (5c921325dd03, 20191118154140) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Build Branding , Build Configuration , User Profile , Build interface , Build stability and functionality , Sync , Default Browser → TestRail
- Functional tests (manual):
Beta build readiness
- Build: 71.0b3-build3 (--, --) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Plug-ins, Address Bar and Crash Reporting → TestRail
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Ubuntu snap package → TestRail
- [DONE] Smoke testing on DLL interceptor → Test Results
- [DONE] Bug fix verification – Bug list
- Update tests (manual):
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b4-build1 (d5a8eb9b5da997aa995a4aa6199ba37bbb581063, 20191024095932) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b5-build1 (105200ed1cf6753d13dbeecc4bbb9e4837b7711d, 20191028110005) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b6-build1 (abe7cbe63f04be2e33810e6fa757fa73e257c4d0, 20191031113544) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b7-build1 (aa565b96885044b65e176acc9e3286e81eb0abe5, 20191107101713) - GREEN
- Update tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b8-build1 (aa565b96885044b65e176acc9e3286e81eb0abe5, 20191107101713) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b9-build1 (271f87528b864c091e90fee8f4cc8cbcdb36cef9., 20191111170815) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b10-build1 (992520c31cde6750358c5d5c3a610f77ebadd404., 20191114160003) - GREEN
- Build: 71.0b11-build1 (5c921325dd03885c3392512722c7cede4ed9e00e, 20191118154140) - GREEN
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Installer, Geolocation, Preferences and Address Bar and Search → TestRail
- [NOT STARTED] Smoke testing on Ubuntu snap package → Blocked by bug 1596135
- [DONE] Bug fix verification – Bug list
- Update tests (manual):
- Build: 71.0b12-build1 (a5ce9b31b825, 20191121155457) - GREEN