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Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 Test Results

Testing will focus on smoketests and BFTs of en-US, and spotchecks all shipping locales.

Related Pages

• Beta 3 Test Instructions
• Beta 2 Release Tracking Page
• Other key test result pages:
  • L10n Test Results
  • Beta3 Testday Results
• How you can help in Thunderbird QA

Contact Info

• Meet fellow testers and ask for help in:
  • #tb-qa channel on irc.mozilla.org IRC instructions
  • newsgroups: mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
• If fellow testers are unable to help, please ping QA lead in #tb-qa channel
• QA lead for Beta 2 is _Tsk_

Get announcements about the progress of this and future test events by subscribing to thunderbird-testers mailing list

Release Notes

Please read draft release notes before testing.

Additional information for testers:

• Some new features, as documented in a previous testday for 3.0b3
• open trunk regressions, confirmed
• open trunk regressions, unconfirmed
• for bugs fixed, please see the release notes
• bug 477097 - Prepare Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 release notes

Schedule

Builds handed to QA

2009-02-19 RC Build1

QA signoff

• Smoketests - 2009-02-XX
• Spotchecks - 2009-02-XX
• FFTs - 2009-02-XX

Build Location and IDs

Build 1

• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b2-candidates/build1/

Test Coverage

Objectives:

• smoketest - all 3 major platforms, and as many locales as possible
• BFT - at least one platform (in "pieces", i.e. all not done by one person).

• Areas Covered (en-US):
  • Spotchecks
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs - excluding themes, updates, addons
  • L10n, spotcheck all shipping locales
• Areas Not Covered:
  • FFTs

Previous release (for reference purposes): Alpha 3 smoketested all 3 major platforms, full coverage of windows BFT, all shipping locales spot checked

QA Summary

• Smoketests: dates
• Windows XP/Vista BFTs: Dates
• Linux BFTs: dates
• Mac BFTs: -
• Release to World:

Testing Results Summary

Types of Tests	Windows XP	Mac OSX	Linux
Smoketests	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
BFTs	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
L10n	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
Spotchecks	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result

locales:

crashes:

bugs found:

bugs fixed:

postings:

• Z Hendrix in mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease - no show stoppers

Testday

A Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 testday has not yet been scheduled.

Detailed Results

Smoketests

Windows XP SP2 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Locale:
• Bugs reported: ()

Mac OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: bug nn

Mac OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported:

Windows XP Vista (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: ()

Windows Vista SP2 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported: ()

Linux x86_64 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
• Results: PASS
• Locale: de
• Bugs reported: ()

BFT

Windows XP SP2/Vista (wsmwk and others)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus BFT
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported:

Mac (maczilla)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus BFT
• Results: PASS partial test
• Locale:
• Bugs reported: {}

Linux (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Test Type: Litmus BFT
• Results: ????
• Bugs reported:

• Issues Noted - Bugs filed:
  • _

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Spot Check

Visually check accounts manager and addons, login to an account, send a message to ensure nothing is obviously broken, tinker around other parts of Thunderbird. To record your test results below: login to the wiki, click edit above at Thunderbird Spot Check, copy one of the blocks below and paste a new one for yourself, and :

• change PASS/FAILED to PASS or FAILED
• change -who- to your name
• change 200812???? to your buildid from help|about

Spot Check Vista SP1 (-who-)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check Linux x86_64 (HenryNe)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Status: PASS all languages,
  unless locale 'af' FAIL (total broken, no pane, no menu)

Spot Check OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (who)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (who)

• Date: 2009-02-??
• Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
• Status: PASS/FAILED