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Firefox 3.5 beta4 Test Results

The covered testing for this release will focus on smoketests, bfts, l10n, top plugins, top financial sites, updates, and spotchecks.

Related Pages

Firefox 3.5 Tracking Site

• Release Schedule
• beta 4 features

Project contacts

PM: Mike Beltzner (beltzner)
Build: Nick Thomas (nthomas)
QA: Tony Chung (tchung)

Schedule

Code Freeze

4/6

Builds hand to QA

4/8

QA test signoff

4/14

• See Test Coverage below

Build Location and IDs

Download: Builds:

Test Coverage

• Areas Covered:
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs
  • L10n
  • Updates
  • Spotchecks & Webpages
  • Bug Fixes

• Areas Not Covered:
  • FFTs
  • Topsites (covered in nightly automation)
  • Top Extensions
  • Top Themes
  • Top Plugins
  • Top Financial Sites
  • Accessibility

Test Results

Types of Tests	Windows XP	Mac OSX	Linux
Smoketests	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result
BFTs	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result
L10n	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result
Updates	tester Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result	tester Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result	tester Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result
Staging/Live Webpages & Spotchecks & Webpages	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result

Smoketest Testing

Lite verification tests (or smoketests) will be first ran when the builds are ready. Tests are available on litmus under the Firefox 3.1 test suite. In any case the Smoketests result, we will raise blockers asap before proceeding with the bfts.

Please record your detailed results in the section below.

Note - please also make a smoketest pass against Windows 7 Beta, Mac OSX on PPC, and Windows Vista

BFT / FFT Testing

BFTs are a more comprehensive set of litmus tests that cover the build testing after smoketests result. Tests are available on litmus under the Firefox 3.1 test suite.

FFTs are a full comprehensive set of litmus tests that extend coverage in areas that BFTs dont often get to. These are run at least once during the major milestone timeline.

If you are running a BFT or FFT, Please record your detailed results in the section below.

Updates Testing

We will be doing updates of all Alpha/Beta users to beta4. We will be checking complete updates, and failover scenarios.

Will be available on betatest, releasetest, and beta channels.

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

L10N

Visual inspection: Go through the P1 list of locales, and run a spotcheck to see if everything visually looks fine. Refer to Fx3.1 L10N Requirements for more specifics.

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

Staging/Live Spotchecks & Webpages

1) Verify the following webpages that gets pushed to staging and then to the live sites. Look for content messaging, spelling mistakes, broken links & imnages, etc..

• Firstrun page (Staging link)
• Whatsnew Page (Staging link)
• Releasenotes page (Staging link)

2) Check live site download links on all platforms. Please cover en-US, and 2 or 3 additional Tier 1 locales as well. Pay attention to the following areas:

• Check for signed installer and applications (windows only)
• Firstrun page, whatsnew page, Home page, Search plugin
• Install, uninstall
• General spotchecks and browser functionality
• Confirm Build IDs

Fixed Bugs Verifications

The following bugs are fixed for beta 3 and need verifications:

• Firefox/Platform 1.9.1 bugs: http://tinyurl.com/8guodt

Testday

A beta4 testday will be held and call for the community support to assist with testing. Activities include executing litmus testcases, bug verifications, and focus on the new feature areas that are being implemented. More can be found on QMO.