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== <font color=darkblue>'''Welcome to the Thunderbird 2 | == <font color=darkblue>'''Welcome to the Thunderbird 2 RC1 Community Test Day!'''</font> == | ||
The official time for the test day is '''Friday, March | The official time for the test day is '''Friday, March 30th, 2007, from 7am - 5pm PST''', but you can try out Litmus any time! | ||
When you are done, please send feedback to [mailto:testday@mozilla.org]. We want to know how your test day went, what issues were found, and which bugs you filed. '''We are also looking for ways to get more people involved, so any ideas or suggestions on how to make future events more interesting and fun are welcome too! :-)''' | |||
Thanks for helping us and being a part of the Mozilla QA Community! | Thanks for helping us and being a part of the Mozilla QA Community! | ||
Revision as of 23:54, 27 March 2007
Welcome to the Thunderbird 2 RC1 Community Test Day!
The official time for the test day is Friday, March 30th, 2007, from 7am - 5pm PST, but you can try out Litmus any time!
When you are done, please send feedback to [1]. We want to know how your test day went, what issues were found, and which bugs you filed. We are also looking for ways to get more people involved, so any ideas or suggestions on how to make future events more interesting and fun are welcome too! :-)
Thanks for helping us and being a part of the Mozilla QA Community!
FAQ
Where do I start?
- Use your favorite IRC client:
- Connect to irc.mozilla.org
- In most clients, this is done by typing /server irc.mozilla.org and hitting Enter.
- Join the #testday channel
- In most clients, typing /join #testday will get you into the channel.
Ok, I am in the channel, now what?
- Let the moderators know if you have any questions or encounter any problems.
- If you are not familiar with our Bugzilla bug tracking system, feel free to report your problems to a moderator and they can log any bugs for you.
- Get to know others in the channel and have fun!
What build/release should I test?
Thunderbird 2 Release Candidate Builds:
- We are still waiting for official RC builds. Until they are available, please use the latest nightly builds.
Thunderbird 2 Nightly Builds:
- en-US: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8
- L10n: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8-l10n
What needs to be tested?
The easiest thing to do...
- Use it to access your e-mail for the day. Send/receive, etc.
- Thunderbird 2 includes a new hosted start page which has been translated into many languages. Try an l10n build and verify that the links in the start page work correctly.
- We recently landed Vista support for Thunderbird. If you have access to Vista, try some of the tests suggested: here. If you have time, run the Thunderbird Windows Vista tests on Litmus.
- On Windows and Linux, the new mail alert notification is now clickable. You should be able to click on messages in the alert and they should load in an existing 3-pane or if no 3-pane is open, open a new 3-pane window.
- Help test the new account wizard ISP work.
- verify that en-GB and de both show googlemail instead of gmail in the account wizard. Bonus points to verify that you are able to access your gmail account.
- Verify that en-US and other locales show gmail in the account wizard and for one of these locales, verify that you are able to access your gmail account.
- Try installing say an en-GB build on top of an en-GB beta 2 build. Verify that you no longer see gmail in the account wizard. This helps test that we properly removed the old gmail.rdf file for en-GB and de.
- Make sure on the mac that dotmac still shows up.
- Make sure on unix that movemail still shows up.
- Bonus points, look in the installation directory for a locale after installing and verify that: <path to exe>\isps\AB_CD contains either gmail.rdf or googlemail.rdf.
If you want to do more...
- Go to Litmus, our test tracking system.
- Try running a smoketest on any of the builds.
- Try running through any number of Basic Functional Tests (BFTs)
If you discover a bug or regression that you feel is critical, please let us know on the #testday IRC channel ASAP!
Where do I find Litmus?
- Go to Litmus
- log in and then select run tests
- You can do a smoketest or a Basic Functional Test, it is entirely up to you!
- Talk to a moderator if you need help.
- Please make sure to choose the correct platform when you start your run.
Who will be moderating the #testday channel?
The moderator's nicks are:
- mscott
- bienvenu
How do I file bugs?
First of all, let one of the moderators know so they can check if it is already a known problem. Then they can guide you to either provide more details, update an existing bug or file a new bug. If filing a new bug, please do a quick check to see if the bug already exists. This can easily be done by searching for the error message, window name, or some over identifing feature of the bug.
How do I send feedback?
Please use the [2] to send feedback about how the testday went, any overall thoughts about the latest release, and roll up of issues found and bugs filed. We really appreciate your help today and your feedback is very valuable.