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The objecting of the Merge Compatibility Project is to perform a comprehensive set of regression tests for both web and platform compatibility across the current Firefox release channels. Web compatibility refers to crowd-sourced manual tests of the most visited global web sites and perform user based scenario interactions. The selected web sites are grouped by functionality. For instance if it is a financial site, the objective would be for a tester to log into to the site a perform an actual transaction and verify the results of the transaction. If it is a music site, the tester should select and play an audio file on the site and so on. The objective is detect deeper issues that may arise for a realistic user interaction with the sites features, pages and capabilities. | The objecting of the Merge Compatibility Project is to perform a comprehensive set of regression tests for both web and platform compatibility across the current Firefox release channels. Web compatibility refers to crowd-sourced manual tests of the most visited global web sites and perform user based scenario interactions. The selected web sites are grouped by functionality. For instance if it is a financial site, the objective would be for a tester to log into to the site a perform an actual transaction and verify the results of the transaction. If it is a music site, the tester should select and play an audio file on the site and so on. The objective is detect deeper issues that may arise for a realistic user interaction with the sites features, pages and capabilities. | ||
The objective of platform compatibility is to ensure Firefox behaves correct across the spectrum of supported hardware and platform configurations. Historically we have relied on our test community to provide the coverage of testing across the matrix of hardware platforms and supported OSes. This reliance has proven to lack completeness and therefore requires a different approach. The proposed approach is to use an outsource vendor (http://www.ibeta.com Ibeta) to supply the machines and configurations which to run graphics and targeted OS compatibility tests. | The objective of platform compatibility is to ensure Firefox behaves correct across the spectrum of supported hardware and platform configurations. Historically we have relied on our test community to provide the coverage of testing across the matrix of hardware platforms and supported OSes. This reliance has proven to lack completeness and therefore requires a different approach. The proposed approach is to use an outsource vendor ([http://www.ibeta.com Ibeta]) to supply the machines and configurations which to run graphics and targeted OS compatibility tests. | ||
== Implementation == | == Implementation == | ||