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= Overview = | = Overview = | ||
== Purpose == | == Purpose == | ||
Activity Stream is a broad effort to help users recover things they’ve found before, move easily between Firefox on different devices, and discover new things on the web. | |||
Trough this, we hope to increased engagement and users retention. | |||
=== Test Pilot === | |||
* | We intend to use Test Pilot as the launch vehicle for the Activity Stream MVP. It will allow us to get into market quickly, solicit feedback from real users, and develop the product in a data driven way. Test Pilot will also help us acquire new users for our test and eventually allow us to smoothly migrate those users to this feature set in Firefox release. | ||
* The | |||
* | == Milestone 1 == | ||
===== Enhanced Data ===== | |||
A key emphasis of Activity Stream is having richer data. This allows us to use more recognizable imagery and longer term allows us to use various page engagement signals to develop a deep understanding of what’s interesting to a user. | |||
We should begin by collecting the following data: | |||
*Favicons (improve retention) | |||
*Large favicons | |||
*Full text of the content (Readability) | |||
*Lead image URL from the full text | |||
*Fixed word summary (first couple of sentences) | |||
===== Addon key features ===== | |||
* '''<big>Timeline</big>''' | |||
The timeline will be a new, core UI surface in Firefox. It is the eventual replacement for the current Library UI. It is a reverse chronological list of the most interesting pages you’ve visited and activities you’ve done in Firefox. This is a great way to interact with the content and tasks a user has interacted with over a short time horizon (48 hours). This also provides a single destination to find anything that you’ve done in the browser. Whether that be something as prosaic as visiting a site or something more nuanced as sharing a specific page with a specific user. | |||
https://invis.io/GA5RW90CW | |||
* '''<big>New Tab</big>''' | |||
New Tab is an existing UI surface, but it is currently underutilized. We will keep the existing search access point. We will optimize the current Top Site’s tiles in order to allow for other content on new tab. We will show 6 smaller, fixed top sites with logos of the sites, when available. We will introduce two new sections: Recent Activity and Spotlight. Recent Activity will be a summary view of your timeline and provide the most recent actions you’ve taken (Bookmarks for now) and other interesting history. Spotlight will be a space for us to feature “nearly now” content along with recommended content in the future. | |||
https://invis.io/QM5RWBSFB | |||
== Milestone 2 == | |||
===== Awesomebar ===== | |||
The Awesomebar is a critical part of the long term success of activity stream. Eventually we should replace frecency with a more nuanced understanding of interestingness to the user. Until then we should make minimal changes to the Awesomebar as the current frecency algorithm is very successful for many users. We should focus on improving recall rather than changing any core algorithm functions. This means better favicons and potentially other images as well. | |||
===== Saving and Sharing ===== | |||
Our user research shows that people repeatedly share and return to content in the browser. We should embrace this by creating a flexible save and share toolbar menu. It should allow the user to share and save to the most common services such as Facebook or Pocket. | |||
We can quickly provide this functionality on desktop by leveraging the existing “shareplane” and offer the most popular services as default options in our new saving and sharing menu. We should also include the existing features built into the browser such as “Email link...” and “Save to Pocket”. There should eventually be a “more” option at the end of this menu that connects the user with the built-in sharing options provided by their OS. | |||
Android and iOS provide advanced sharing options at the system level and Firefox for Android and iOS both do a great job leveraging these systems. For the MVP we can rely on these existing integrations. In the future we should consider if we want to have Firefox specific share options on mobile. | |||
Share and Save actions are high signal operations. The user is clearly indicating that something is important. We should flag shared URLs and add an activity entry to the timeline including as much detail as possible e.g. “Emailed this page to Bryan Bell”. | |||
https://invis.io/5A5RW88TW | |||
== Scope == | == Scope == | ||
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[mailto:paul.oiegas@softvision.ro Paul Oiegas] - leading QA efforts | [mailto:paul.oiegas@softvision.ro Paul Oiegas] - leading QA efforts | ||
[mailto:cosmin.muntean@softvision.ro Cosmin Muntean] - QA | [mailto:cosmin.muntean@softvision.ro Cosmin Muntean] - QA | ||
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== Scope of Testing == | == Scope of Testing == | ||
=== In Scope === | === In Scope === | ||
Activity stream is an add-on that will comprise saved bookmarks, saved pockets and more in one place and it will display all the user activity organized in an reverse chronological timeline. This will allow the user to limit the displayed pages or domains from his activity. Also the add-on will provide more searching options based on favicons, images and keywords from the read article (first sentences from it). | |||
The scope of our testing is the Activity Stream-desktop add-on and its functionality. The testing effort for Activity Stream will be invested on the following areas: | |||
* integration: verify the add-on integration with the current browser functionalities and UI; | |||
* functionality: basic and advanced functionality to be verified according to the existing requirements; | |||
* usability: the Activity Stream timeline and New Tab content must be easy to use and straightforward; | |||
=== Out of Scope === | === Out of Scope === | ||
- | - The mobile implementation and testing is not yet documented. | ||
- Testing how Bookmarks and History are imported in the add-on functionalities ? | |||
= Requirements for testing = | = Requirements for testing = | ||
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Testing will be performed on following OSes (both x86 & x64 infrastructures): | Testing will be performed on following OSes (both x86 & x64 infrastructures): | ||
* Windows XP | * Windows XP | ||
* Windows 7 | * Windows 7 | ||
* Windows 8.1 | * Windows 8.1 | ||
* Windows 10 | * Windows 10 | ||