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# '''Make a test environment''' (optional) - [https://support.mozilla.org/kb/using-multiple-profiles You can create and use a profile just for testing]. <small> | # '''Make a test environment''' (optional) - [https://support.mozilla.org/kb/using-multiple-profiles You can create and use a profile just for testing]. <small> | ||
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# '''Get a build''' - Testing is best done with [https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/ "Daily" builds] (in same places referred to as "Nightly"), the trunk is where Thunderbird is currently in development and it has the latest fixes. Trunk/Daily also has the greatest risk of problems | # '''Get a build''' - Testing is best done with [https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/ "Daily" builds] (in same places referred to as "Nightly"), the trunk is where Thunderbird is currently in development and it has the latest fixes. Trunk/Daily also has the greatest risk of problems; so if you cannot use Daily try to use [http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/ Beta]. Worst case use the [http://www.getthunderbird.com/ the last released version]. | ||
# '''Pick bugs''' - [[Thunderbird:Upcoming_QA_Testday|current bugday "Focus"]] suggests which bugs to work on. <!-- http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Upcoming_QA_Testday --> | # '''Pick bugs''' - [[Thunderbird:Upcoming_QA_Testday|current bugday "Focus"]] suggests which bugs to work on. <!-- http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Upcoming_QA_Testday --> | ||
# '''Work bugs''' - test the problem. For UNCONFIRMED bugs, mark as "confirmed" if you are able to reproduce '''and''' the steps to reproduce are well documented and easily followed, '''and''' the problem exists in trunk build. If you are not running trunk but can replicate with current release, please comment but do not set to confirmed. | # '''Work bugs''' - test the problem. For UNCONFIRMED bugs, mark as "confirmed" if you are able to reproduce '''and''' the steps to reproduce are well documented and easily followed, '''and''' the problem exists in trunk build. If you are not running trunk but can replicate with current release, please comment with your findings, but do not set to confirmed. | ||
#* Clarify the bug report without distorting or changing the original problem. For example if you found a related or new issue not described in the bug being tested, then you should make a new bug for that issue. | |||
#* Clarify | |||
#* Change the bug's one line summary at the top of the bug page to be more accurate and complete, but also remove words to make summary less chatty - a summary should not read like a book, nor a syntactically correct sentence - shortness is good. | #* Change the bug's one line summary at the top of the bug page to be more accurate and complete, but also remove words to make summary less chatty - a summary should not read like a book, nor a syntactically correct sentence - shortness is good. | ||
#* | #* For a bug that tests as no longer existing, close bug report as [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status resolution WORKSFORME, INVALID, or INCOMPLETE] as is appropriate. | ||
#* Ask bug reporter or someone else to gain information that will help you reproduce the issue. Set the "Need more information from" field. | #* Ask bug reporter or someone else to gain information that will help you reproduce the issue. Set the "Need more information from" field. | ||
#* Set a more appropriate [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird Thunderbird component] or [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=MailNews%20Core MailNews component] for the problem being described. | #* Set a more appropriate [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird Thunderbird component] or [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=MailNews%20Core MailNews component] for the problem being described. | ||