Welcome to the Mozilla QA Community Daily Testing Project
In 2006, one of the highest priorities of Mozilla Quality Assuance is to include interested community members in the daily operations of Mozilla QA. This will not only include manual test execution, but many other areas in Mozilla QA projects. (see Future Project Items below) This project is intended to become one of the main portals for community members to participate in Mozilla Quality Assurance. Welcome aboard!
State of the Project
The project is now open to anyone willing to contribute. Current phase is Smoketesting of Firefox builds. Thunderbird smoketesting is the next item slated to be added.
How to Contribute
Follow these basic instructions.
- Go to http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/communityqateam and subscribe to the group email list. This email group is for communication related to the community testing project.
- Testing schedule as follows:
Choose builds(s), day(s), and platform(s) to test:- Firefox 1.5.0.x builds Monday, Wednesday, and/or Friday
- Windows, Macintosh and/or Linux
- Firefox Trunk builds Tuesday, Thursday and/or Saturday
- Windows, Macintosh and/or Linux
- Firefox 1.5.0.x builds Monday, Wednesday, and/or Friday
- On the day(s) you're scheduled to test, retrieve the appropriate build when it becomes available. Then go to http://litmus.mozilla.org/ and create a run using the configuration for the build you are testing. Login (create an account if you don't have one) and submit test case results for the smoketests that you run. Use https://bugzilla.mozilla.org to search for or file any bugs you see in the build. Ideally, we'd like to see the smoketests completed by 10:00 am Pacific Standard Time. But if that is not practical for your schedule, submit results as early as you can.
- Post to the group email any blocker bugs found. We'll need to escalate any serious problems in builds that are untestable. Also, if you need help or have questions, ask in irc.mozilla.org #qa.
- Check out your results from the links to Litmus searches at http://tbird.tbird.xsmail.com/public/resultslinks.html. I recommend bookmarking that link and setting up its properties to "Load this bookmark in the sidebar"
Rewards
We'd like to show our appreciation for regularly reliable contributors. Specifics haven't been ironed out yet, but the following are likely:
- Monthly - Mozilla Store gift certificates to top contributors. (TBD)
- Monthly - Mozilla Store gift certificates for standout contributors. (TBD)
- Outstanding contributor granted Project Lead (as the project expands into multiple areas, we'll need community members to step up and take lead on many of them. We just don't have the numbers at Mozilla to take on everything)
Future Project Items
This list is by all means not complete or set in stone.
- Add Tips/FAQ to this page based on community input to the project.
- Smoketest Thunderbird
- Basic Functional Testing of Firefox and Thunderbird
- Manual and automated test case development
- Other projects to help