Apps/QA/Community Tasks

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Overview

These are known tasks that we need help with on the Apps project with QA. To start on a task, fine one that sounds interesting and contact the listed mentor for that task.

Gecko vs. Webkit Evaluation

Mentor: Jason Smith and [1]

Skills you will learn:

  • <list skills here>

Summary:

<summarize here>

Subjective App Analysis

Mentor: Jason Smith

Skills you will learn:

  • <list skills here>

Summary:

<summarize the task here>

Desktop Manual Testing

Mentor: Jason Smith

Skills you will learn:

  • <list skills here>

Summary:

Run through the manual test cases for desktop apps listed here. These test cases span multiple sheets in this google document to cover testing extension installation, installing apps, launching apps, the HTML 5 dashboard, uninstalling/closing apps, app sync, and other miscellaneous areas. After you run one or more test cases, send me a message specifying what test case IDs you ran and the results of those test cases on the operating systems you ran the test cases on. Additionally, if an app was used during this case, specify what app was used. If you found any issues while testing, check to see if a bug was logged in the web apps bugzilla component. If there is no issue logged for an issue you found, log a bug here.

Android Manual Testing

Mentor: Aaron Train

Skills you will learn:

  • <list skills here>

Summary:

Run through the manual test cases for desktop apps listed here. These test cases span multiple sheets in this google document to cover testing soup installation, launching and running soup, installing apps, using the store, sync, purchasing apps, and other miscellaneous areas. After you run one or more test cases, send me a message specifying what test case IDs you ran and the results of those test cases on the operating systems you ran the test cases on. Additionally, if an app was used during this case, specify what app was used. If you found any issues while testing, check to see if a bug was logged in the web apps bugzilla component. If there is no issue logged for an issue you found, log a bug here.

Verify Fixed Bugs

Mentor: Jason Smith and Aaron Train

Skills you will learn:

  • <list skills here>

Summary:

  1. Use this bug query to find a bug to test
  2. Read the bug to understand the steps to reproduce the conditions to test
  3. Test the bug on an older build to verify you can see the bug (older builds are here: http://people.mozilla.com/~dclarke/openwebapps/)
  4. Test the bug on the most recent build to verify that it is fixed
  5. Write the bug number and result below with your name in this Etherpad.