Firefox/Features/Lessen App Update Displayed UI/TestPlan
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Lessen App Update Displayed UI
Feature | Status | Dev Lead | QA Lead | Status |
Lessen App Update Displayed UI | Landed in Firefox 8 | Frank Yan | AndreiD | Complete |
Summary
- A notification that there is an update downloaded/ready to install and Firefox needs to be restarted to apply the update is displayed 24 hours after an update has been downloaded.
- This changes the old notification time from 12 to 24 hours.
- This feature is available starting Firefox 8.
Reference
- Design and infrastructure:
- Bug 659425 - get average session length from crash stats and Test Pilot studies
- Bug 657472 - 'Tune' the time to wait before displaying the update been downloaded / restart notification and provide ability to override in the update xml
Use Cases to Test
- Basic Functional Testing
- Steps to verify:
- Install a version of Firefox which requires updates
- Launch Firefox
- Go to Help/About Firefox
- After the new version is downloaded, simply close the About dialog and let Firefox opened without restarting
- Expected result:
- 24 hours later a notification to restart Firefox in order to apply the update is displayed
- 24 hours later a notification to restart Firefox in order to apply the update is displayed
- Edge Cases
- Also, the notification should occur with no problem after 24 hours if:
- Multiple tabs are loaded
- Multiple windows of Firefox are opened
- Panorama is opened
- Heavy user profile is loaded (big history, multiple bookmarks, settings, tabs, add-ons)
- Multiple tabs are loaded
Test Cases
- A list of example cases that can help with testing this feature can be found here: Test_Cases_Examples
Important bugs
- bug 659425 - get average session length from crash stats and Test Pilot studies
- bug 657472 - 'Tune' the time to wait before displaying the update been downloaded / restart notification and provide ability to override in the update xml