QA/Firefox3/TestResults/Beta5
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Test Results
Related Pages
Links to separate test results. Some are referenced further below.
- Update snippets Test Results
- L10n Spotchecks Test Results
- Beta 5 Testday Results
- QA Beta 5 Relnotes Tracking
- Windows Respin Tests
Contact Info
PM: Mike Beltzner (beltzner)
Build: John O'Duinn (joduinn)
QA: Tony (tchung)
Schedule
- Code Freeze
- 3/18
- Code Build
- ETA 3/25
- QA test signoff
- ETA 3/24-3/27
- Smoketests (3/24) result (3 testers)
- BFTs (3/24-3/25) result (4 testers)
- Beta 5 and past focused Tests (ongoing)
- Update snippets from Alpha X, Beta 1,2 -> Beta 3 (3/25-3/26) result betatest, result releasetest, result beta (4 testers)
- P1 L10N spotchecks (3/26) result (1 tester)
- B5 bug verifications (ongoing)
- Beta 5 Testday (3/27) result (3 testers)
- Release notes, Websites, live tests (3/27) result (3 testers)
Release Notes
See list of release notes here
Build Location and IDs
Strategy
- Areas Covered:
- Smoketests
- BFTs
- Beta4 and past focused Tests
- Update snippets from Alpha X, Beta X -> Beta 5
- Memory Leak Testing (handled by Tomcat on debug builds)
- P1 L10N spotchecks
- Bug verifications
- Beta 5 Testday
- Areas Not Covered:
- FFTs
- Top Sites
- Top Plugins
- Top Themes
- Top Extensions
- localization (String changes) - 3rd party will cover
- Distribution
- Major Updates
Test Results
Types of Tests | Win XP | Win Vista | Mac Tiger | Mac Leopard | Linux |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smoketest | Tomcat - result | juanb - result | marcia - result | marcia - result | Tomcat - result |
BFT | Tomcat - result | Tomcat (Vista test suite) - result | juanb - result | Marcia (Leopard test suite/PPC and Intel) - result | Tracy - result |
Updates Testing (see below) | Tchung - Betatest result, Releasetest result, Beta result | Juanb - Betatest result, Releasetest result, Beta result | Stephend - Betatest result, Releasetest result, Beta result | Marcia - Betatest result, Releasetest result, Beta result | Abillings - Betatest result, Releasetest result, Beta result |
l10N Pri 1 locales | Tchung - result | N/A | Tchung - result | N/A | Tchung - result |
Bug Verifications | Everyone - result | Everyone - result | Everyone - result | Everyone - result | Everyone - result |
Updates Testing
We will be doing updates of all Alpha and Beta users to Beta 5. Tests will include different locales for beta 1, but only en-US for all past versions. We will be checking partial updates, complete updates, and failed status.
Will be available on betatest, releasetest, and beta channels
- Betatest channel - result
- Releasetest channel - result
- Beta channel (live) - result
Testcases and Results are tracked here.
L10N P1 Spotchecks
Visual inspection: Go through the P1 list of locales, and run a spotcheck to see if everything visually looks fine. Refer to L10N Requirements for more specifics.
Automation inspection: supported locales will be ran through Minotaur, and results will be reviewed by axel and mic.
Axel's Localization Status Page
P1 Locales to be tested:
- German (de) result
- Japanese (ja) result
- Spanish (es-ES) result
- Netherlands (nl) result
- Italian (it) result
- Finnish (fi) result
- Hindi (pa-IN) result
- Chinese (zh-CN) result
- French (fr) result
Testcases and Results are tracked here - result.
Bug Verifications
Bugs that are marked RESOLVED FIXED that are checked in for beta. Please verify them.
B5 Firefox bugs -
B5 Platform bugs -
Testday
A beta 5 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.
Testday results are posted here.
Detailed Results
Enter results from testing here.
Live Spot Checks
Live site downloads for Beta4, after bits are pushed out. 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
- Installer, uninstall
- General spotchecks and browser functionality
Windows XP -> abillings - PASS
Windows Vista -> stephend - PASS
Mac Tiger -> Juan - PASS
Mac Leopard -> Marcia - see results below
- he, Hebrew - fails on Mac with UI problems. Sent screenshots to tchung
- fr, Frisian - PASS
- bug 417107 has been resolved
- Identifikues montimi: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; sq; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4 - PASS
Linux -> stephend - PASS
Top Issues Reported in Hendrix Against Firefox 3 Beta 5
- Enter here
Top Issues in b4 in Reporter
- Enter here