TestEngineering/UI/AMO/Current Release/5.12.6

Release Details

• Dev freeze: 12/31/10
• QA start: 12/31/10
• Push to production: 12/15/10
• Push bug
• Release Details

Major Features targeted:

• New Developer Tools
  
• Performance warnings
  
• bug 600937- Implement add-on details view of discovery pane

• bug 609355- Create new validator detail page

• bug 611522- Tell remora about the STATUS_* changes

• bug 612051- Migrate update.php to zamboni

Exit Criteria

1. Verify all changes which are going live in 5.12.6
2. Verify all bugs with [QA!] in the whiteboard
3. Run all the major test run in litmus

Use case scenarios tested

• Move update.php to zamboni
  • Update add-on versions
  • Update Firefox versions (with add-on updates)
  • Update Firefox versions (with no add-on updates)
  • Update prompt while opening a Firefox profile
  • Update prompt for beta add-ons
  • Update prompt for:
    • extensions(.xpi)
    • themes(.xpi and.jar)
    • Dictionaries and Language packs
  • Check that updates are only offered when the newer versions of the add-on are public
  • Check that users on an unreviewed version of the add-on get updates
  • Check that no updates are offered if the newer version is incompatible with user's browser version/platform

Support Information:

Application versions supported:

Apps/versions
Firefox	3.0	3.5	3.6	4.0
Thunderbird	2.0	3.0	3.2	3.3
Mobile	1.0	1.1	2.0	4.0
Seamonkey	1.1	1.5	2.0	2.1
Sunbird	0.5	0.7	0.9	1.0

Platforms to be tested:

Platform

Windows XP

Windows 7

Windows Vista

MAC OSX

Linux-Ubuntu

Settings:

To test update on the staging server, change the following setting in your about:config

extensions.update.url to
https://addons.allizom.org/z/update?reqVersion=%REQ_VERSION%&id=%ITEM_ID%&version=%ITEM_VERSION%&maxAppVersion=%ITEM_MAXAPPVERSION%&status=%ITEM_STATUS%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=%APP_VERSION%&appOS=%APP_OS%&appABI=%APP_ABI%&locale=%APP_LOCALE%&currentAppVersion=%CURRENT_APP_VERSION%&updateType=%UPDATE_TYPE%

Pre-release Meeting notes