QA/Fennec/HardwareEncoderForWebRTC

Overview

Purpose

The purpose of this wiki is to serve as a general test plan for verifying the progression and performance of the hardware encoder for WebRTC

Ownership

Developer contact: Munro Mengjue Chiang [:mchiang]

QA: Bogdan Surd [:bogdan]

Overall Status

[LANDED] Nightly 56: 19-06-2017

[NOT LANDED] Beta 55:

Testing Summary

Scope of testing

• The testing will be focus on
  • Testing the performance of the app with the hardware encoder enabled
  • No crashes are caused with the hardware encoder enabled in Firefox

Environments

Testing will be performed on following devices:

• Phones
  • Android 4 -> Android 7
• Tablet
  • Android 4 -> Android 7

Specifications

• In about:config set media.navigator.hardware.vp8_encode.acceleration_enabled & media.navigator.hardware.vp8_encode.acceleration_remote_enabled to true
• Trello Board: https://trello.com/c/7MeEQvrY/270-fennec-hw-encoder-for-webrtc-on-android

Acceptance Criteria

• Firefox does not crash
• Application performance is improved and device battery life is extended.

Testing details

Test Cases

• Hardware encoder for WebRTC Test Case

Testing days

Date:2017-06-21

• Created Test Plan
• Partial Test Cases Created
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uv55Q0_5Nm5YfQqNrfAMqG64koUC7HKkksChkYjcgww/edit#gid=0

Bug Work

Tracking bugs

• Meta bug
  • bug 1265755 - [Firefox for Android] Utilize hardware encoders to save power consumption & improve performance

Full Query

ID	Priority	Summary	Status	Assigned to
1257777	P2	Move Android audio/video decoder out of application process	RESOLVED	John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]
1354993	P2	[Firefox for Android] Add PictureID into VP8 CodecSpecificInfo	RESOLVED
1358030	P1	[Firefox for Android] add mochitest to test remote h/w encoder	RESOLVED	Munro Mengjue Chiang [:mchiang] Be Mozillian since 1/19/2018
1379926	P1	[HW Encoder] Media streaming not working on https://opentokrtc.com/	VERIFIED	Munro Mengjue Chiang [:mchiang] Be Mozillian since 1/19/2018

4 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (75%); 1 Verified (25%);

Signoff

Criteria

• All test cases should be executed
• All blockers, criticals must be fixed and verified or have an agreed-upon timeline for being fixed

Results

Nightly testing

• In Progress

Beta testing

• N/A