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Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 Test Results

Testing will focus on smoketests and BFTs of en-US, and spotchecks all shipping locales.

Related Pages

Beta 2 Test Instructions
Beta 2 Release Tracking Page
Other key test result pages:
- L10n Test Results
- Beta2 Testday Results
How you can help in Thunderbird QA

Contact Info

Meet fellow testers and ask for help in:
- #tb-qa channel on irc.mozilla.org IRC instructions
- newsgroups: mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease, mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
If fellow testers are unable to help, please ping QA lead in #tb-qa channel
QA lead for Beta 2 is _Tsk_

Get announcements about the progress of this and future test events by subscribing to thunderbird-testers mailing list

Release Notes

Please read draft release notes before testing.

Additional information for testers:

Some new features, as documented in a previous testday for 3.0b2
open trunk regressions, confirmed
open trunk regressions, unconfirmed
for bugs fixed, please see the release notes
bug 477097 - Prepare Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 release notes

Schedule

Builds handed to QA: 2009-02-19 RC Build1
QA signoff

Smoketests - 2009-02-XX
Spotchecks - 2009-02-XX
BFTs - 2009-02-XX

Build Location and IDs

Build 1

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b2-candidates/build1/

Test Coverage

Objectives:

smoketest - all 3 major platforms, and as many locales as possible
BFT - at least one platform (in "pieces", i.e. all not done by one person).

Areas Covered (en-US):
- Spotchecks
- Smoketests
- BFTs - excluding themes, updates, addons
- L10n, spotcheck all shipping locales
Areas Not Covered:
- FFTs

Previous release (for reference purposes): Alpha 3 smoketested all 3 major platforms, full coverage of windows BFT, all shipping locales spot checked

QA Summary

Smoketests: dates
Windows XP/Vista BFTs: Dates
Linux BFTs: dates
Mac BFTs: -
Release to World:

Testing Results Summary

Types of Tests	Windows XP	Mac OSX	Linux
Smoketests	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
BFTs	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
L10n	TBD - result	TBD - result	TBD - result
Spotchecks	tester - result	tester - result	tester - result

locales:

crashes:

bugs found:

bugs fixed:

postings:

Z Hendrix in mozilla.feedback.thunderbird.prerelease - no show stoppers

Testday

A Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 testday has not yet been scheduled.

Detailed Results

Smoketests

Windows XP SP2 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: ????
Locale:
Bugs reported: ()

Mac OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: ????
Bugs reported: bug nn

Mac OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: ????
Bugs reported:

Windows XP Vista (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: ????
Bugs reported: ()

Windows Vista SP2 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: ????
Bugs reported: ()

Linux x86_64 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus Smoketests
Results: PASS
Locale: de
Bugs reported: ()

BFT

Windows XP SP2/Vista (wsmwk and others)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus BFT
Results: ????
Bugs reported:

Mac (maczilla)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus BFT
Results: PASS partial test
Locale:
Bugs reported: {}

Linux (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Test Type: Litmus BFT
Results: ????
Bugs reported:

Issues Noted - Bugs filed:
- _

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Spot Check

Visually check accounts manager and addons, login to an account, send a message to ensure nothing is obviously broken, tinker around other parts of Thunderbird. To record your test results below: login to the wiki, click edit above at Thunderbird Spot Check, copy one of the blocks below and paste a new one for yourself, and :

change PASS/FAILED to PASS or FAILED
change -who- to your name
change 200812???? to your buildid from help|about

Spot Check Vista SP1 (-who-)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check Linux x86_64 (HenryNe)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Status: PASS all languages,
unless locale 'af' FAIL (total broken, no pane, no menu)

Spot Check OS X [PPC Mac] 10.4 (who)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Status: PASS/FAILED

Spot Check OS X [Intel Mac] 10.5 (who)

Date: 2009-02-??
Build ID: version 3.0b2 (200902????)
Status: PASS/FAILED

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