WebAudio/Test Plan

Web Audio

Feature	Status	Release Target	Dev Lead	QA Lead	QA Status
Web Audio	Landed	Firefox 25	Ehsan Akhgari	Manuela Muntean	In progress

Summary

The Web Audio API describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering.

• Note: for Linux platform, in order to activate this feature, you need to go to about:config and set media.gstreamer.enabled to true

References

• MozillaWiki article for the W3C Web Audio API
• W3C Web Audio API Specification
• Differences in the implementation between Firefox and Chrome

• Demo pages:
  • http://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/
  • http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/samples.html
  • http://intgr.github.io/walkinafog.com/

• Notes
  • not all demos are currently available for Firefox (most of them only work with Chrome)
  • the MP3 support isn't finished yet on Mac

Test Cases

• The manual test cases for this feature can be viewed in this Moztrap testsuite

Bugs

• Tracking bug - 779297

Sign off

Criteria

• All the test cases were executed
• All the blocker, critical, major bugs have been fixed

Firefox 24 Aurora (pre-beta sign off) - 08/04/2013

• On the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64bit
  • Windows 8 32bit
  • Ubuntu 12.10 32bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8.3

Firefox 25 Aurora merge - 08/08/2013

• On the next OSs:
  • Windows 7 64bit
  • Windows 8 32bit
  • Ubuntu 12.10 32bit
  • Mac OSX 10.8.4

• Concerns:
  • *bug 902881 - Demo not working properly on Mac - NEW