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Fennec (Firefox for Android) 46 Beta 2 (build 1 & 2) Test Plan

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• QA Contact: Fennec SV QA Team
• IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org#qa ping IoanaChiorea; Flaviu; MihaiP; TeoVermesan;
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Features

See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview of this release. Found below are a subset of all high-priority items

Beta 1

<kmoir> we had to rebuild last night for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1256765

<kmoir> we need to kick off another build in shipit for https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-beta&revision=bde4a1b01275

Beta 2

Checklist

Pre-release

• [DONE] Smoketests executed, including new features and Yahoo search default, with no blockers found
• [DONE] Android permissions tested with no blockers found
• [Not planned] BFTs runned, verifying all features are stable
• [DONE] Branch bug fix verifications completed with no blockers found
• [DONE] L10n spotchecks completed, with no blockers found
• [Not planned] AppThwack automation executed with no blockers found

Post-release

• Verify release notes
• Verify updates from previous Beta (no update on Gingerbread)
• Verify download from the Play store
• Verify download from beta.mozilla.org

Feature

• [ON TRACK] Android M Permissions and Tab Queues - Teodora Vermesan
• [ON TRACK] Optimize home screen shortcuts - Mihai Pop
• [ON TRACK] EOL Honeycomb (3.x) - Ioana Chiorean
• NA - Block error page when hitting blocked URL in FFB mode - Mihai Ninu
• [ON TRACK]Use Alexa top 5 sites as default suggested tiles - Teodora Vermesan
• [ON TRACK]Add option to load cached pages when offline - Teodora Vermesan
• [ON TRACK]Improve Web Notifications UX - Ioana Chiorean
• [ON TRACK]Inform users that old sync will be deprecated - Flaviu Cos
• [ON TRACK] Android 6.0+: Support for requesting permissions at runtime - Flaviu Cos
• Include default domains for inline autocompletion
• NA - Redefining search via awesomebar should automatically provide search suggestions - Flaviu Cos
• [ON TRACK] Revise first-run onboarding tour to present browser functionality
• NA - Support sub-distributions based on MCC/MNC codes
• [ON TRACK] Enable and support signed add-ons - Mihai Pop
• NA - Downloadable / 'stub' installer - Ioana Chiorean
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Maya Kaqchikel (cak) - Ioana Chiorean
• [ON TRACK] Added locale(s): Romansh (rm) - Ioana Chiorean
• [ON TRACK] Add History and Bookmarks in Menu

Smoketests

Light verification tests (or smoketests) will be first run when the builds are ready. Tests are available on Mozilla Moztrap under the 45.0 smoketest suite. In any case of failure in any Smoketest, blockers need to be raised ASAP before proceeding to the BFTs.

Detailed Smoketest results

Android Permissions Testing

Detailed Android Permissions Testing Results
Verify permissions between what is currently on the store and with this beta build candidate.
Details: Android Permissions

Branch Bug Fix Verifications

• Firefox for Android (45) Bugs

Detailed Bug Verification

L10N (Localization) Spot Checks

Light testing on featured locales to ensure strings fit the space allotted and there are no entity errors from missing or corrupt localizations.

Detailed L10N matrix