QA/Places
Intro
Places is currently enabled starting with Firefox 3 and it represents the engine behind History, Bookmarks, Livemarks, Annotations, Microsummaries and the Awesomebar.
Feature Ownership
QA Lead: Andrei Vaida, :avaida on IRC
Documentation
mozillaZine
- Livemarks documentation
- Autocomplete behavior documentation
- Inline autocomplete documentation
- Location Bar search documentation
MozillaWiki
Related features
Related prefs
- Async-friendly transaction manager enabler pref:
browser.places.asyncTransactions
- Unified Autocomplete enabler pref:
browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete
- requestAutoComplete() enabler prefs:
dom.forms.autocomplete.experimentaldom.forms.requestAutocomplete
Testing approach
All testing activities will focus on each sub-feature separately: e.g. Bookmarks, as well as on the interactions between all sub-features: e.g. Bookmarks - Livemarks.
Test plans
MozTrap tests
Places smoketests available here.
[IN PROGRESS] Unified Autoomplete tests available here.
- Test suite draft available as a google spreadsheet.
One and Done tasks
Tasks for this feature are also available on One and Done, right here.
Bug work
Bugzilla queries
Unconfirmed bugs
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Bugzilla query error
There was a problem during the HTTP request: 429 Unknown Error
qe-verify+ bugs
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Bugzilla query error
There was a problem during the HTTP request: 429 Unknown Error
Verified Fixed bugs
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Bugzilla query error
There was a problem during the HTTP request: 429 Unknown Error
Upcoming UX changes
- Firefox: Bookmarks & History, Location Bar, Microsummaries, RSS Discovery and Preview, Search - Bugzilla Query.
- Toolkit: Places - Bugzilla Query.
Sign-offs
Aurora sign-offs
Async-friendly transaction manager:
- [DONE] Aurora 32: landed without QA sign-off
Unified Autocomplete:
- [DISABLED] Aurora 34: disabled due to incomplete UI implementation
