Releases/Firefox 72/Test Plan
Contents
Summary
The purpose of this page is to track the testing of Firefox 72 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 72 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: 73.0a1 (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 72 milestones
Beta/DevEdition build readiness
Developer Edition build readiness
- Build: 72.0b4-build1 (8919727c131ee5a5389d28f2f951b6c3ef9953e0, 20191206183317) - 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, Webextensions → TestRail
- Functional tests (manual):
Beta build readiness
- Build: 72.0b1-build1 (fbd5649f1f88, 20191202142314) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Installer, Startup and Profile and Downloads → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b2-build1 (1157109d1975, 20191203141951) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Address Bar and Search, Audio/Video, Graphics, Crash Reporting and Plug-ins → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b3-build1 (229d39ef2711, 20191205201734) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Uninstaller and Pocket New Tab → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b4-build1 (229d39ef2711, 20191206183317) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Security and Privacy ,Drag and Drop, Scrolling, Panning and Zooming and Geolocation → TestRail
- [IN PROGRESS] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b5-build1 (ebe06d4050d9, 20191210230245) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Security and Privacy ,Theme and Toolbar Customization, PDF Viewer and Images → TestRail
- [IN PROGRESS] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [IN PROGRESS] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b6-build1 (baa895188e29, 20191212210843) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Printing ,Security and Privacy, Browser Window , Autocomplete & Autofill and Tab Bar options→ TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b7-build1 (cd6d215cb8fa, 20191213132525) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Session Restore ,Bookmarks and History and Form Autofill → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b8-build1 ([1], 20191218033533) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Form Autofill ,Password Manager,Preferences and OS Integration→ TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b9-build1 (a15c8d0d512e, 20191219234059) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Password Manager, Preferences, Data Migration and Sync & Firefox Account→ TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b10-build1 (0941e84243b2, 20191221003008) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on OS Integration, Notifications, Push Notifications and Alerts and Menus → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0b11-build1 (d5822b0bc63d, 20191227034945) - GREEN
- Functional tests (manual):
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Tabbed Browser, Password Manager , Preferences , Menus and Firefox Screenshots → TestRail
- [DONE] Bug fix verification
- Update tests (manual):
- [DONE] beta, aurora → report
- Functional tests (manual):
Release 72 build readiness
- Build: 72.0-build2 (e3f0d87af6e18f61793650fabb96562d105a1f5d, 20191230161130) - GREEN
- Build: 72.0-build3 (https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/d88c5f2e59dccf2bfd345e66e548f2f245561a00 d88c5f2e59dccf2bfd345e66e548f2f245561a00], 20200102182448) - GREEN
- Build: 72.0.1-build1 (8260da04c9b1, 20200107212822) - GREEN
- [DONE] Smoke, regression, exploratory → TestRail
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Ubuntu snap package → Installation
- [DONE] Bug fix verification – Chempsill bug
- Update tests (manual):
- Build: 72.0.2-build1 (25e0edbb0a613c3bf794c93ba3aa0985d29d5ef4, 20200117190643) - GREEN
- [DONE] Smoke, regression, exploratory → TestRail
- [DONE] Smoke testing on Ubuntu snap package → Installation
- [DONE] Bug fix verification – Driver bugs
- Update tests (manual):