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Firefox 16 Test Plan
Summary
Milestone | Firefox 16 |
Status | Currently in Beta -- merging to Release on October 8, 2012 |
Lead | Juan Becerra (irc: juanb) |
2nd | Anthony Hughes (irc: ashughes) |
Builds | beta.mozilla.org |
The following is the test plan for Firefox 16 from Nightly through to Release. Use this document as a reference for what is being tested to validate the quality of Firefox 16. After the release this document will be used as an archive of what was done to validate this release.
If you have some free time, please pick a task below and get in touch with one of the leads.
Schedule
The following is a description of the tasks which need to be completed throughout this release.
- 2012-06-04: [DONE] Nightly Merge
- 2012-07-17: [DONE] Aurora Merge
- 2012-08-28: [DONE] Pre-Beta feature sign-offs
- 2012-08-30: [DONE] Beta 1
- 2012-09-06: [DONE] Beta 2
- 2012-09-13: [ON TRACK] Beta 3
- 2012-09-20: {{|}} Beta 4
- 2012-09-27: {{|}} Beta 5
- 2012-10-04: {{|}} Beta 6
- 2012-10-06: {{|}} Release Candidate
- 2012-10-09: {{|}} Final
Nightly
Merge
- Functional Automation - result
- Update Spotchecks - result
Features
See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview
Feature | Owner | Status | Tests |
Incremental GC | Ioana Budnar | On track | |
Opt-in activation for plugins | Paul Silaghi | On track | |
Developer Toolbar | Virgil Dicu | On track | |
Command Line | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | On track | |
Show PDF inline | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | Disabled until Fx18(bug 786012) | |
Panel-based Download Manager | Simona Badau | Delayed to Fx18 | |
OS X 10.7 support | Vlad Ghetiu | Not implemented |
Endurance Automation
The purpose of this section is to track any potential memory regressions via spikes reported in the dashboard.
- What to Do
- Check the Endurance Charts
- If you see an anomalous event (ie. spike or dip), get the report for the specific event
- If the event happens twice in a row, file a bug under Mozmill Tests
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the issue
- Record the event in this wiki below
- Current Status (Mihaela Velimiroviciu) - Last Updated Jul 18th, 2012
ID | Summary | Priority | Status |
---|---|---|---|
764823 | Memory spike discovered by endurance tests on Nightly Linux and Mac between June 12 and 13 | -- | RESOLVED |
767348 | Memory consumption shows an ascending trend on Nightly/Win 6.1 x64 | -- | RESOLVED |
773632 | High results on mozmill endurance test on Mac 10.7.4_x64 since Jul 5 | -- | RESOLVED |
3 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Functional Automation
The purpose of this section is to track any potential functional regressions via results reported in the dashboard.
- What to Do
- Check the testrun reports
- If you see any failing tests, check that there are not any bugs on file for it already
- If not, file a bug under Mozmill Tests
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the issue
- Record the event in this wiki below
- Current Status (Vlad Maniac / Alex Lakatos) - Last Updated
Bug Triage
The purpose of this section is to triage UNCONFIRMED incoming bugs.
- What to Do
- Check the UNCONFIRMED bugs
- Test the bugs in the latest Firefox Nightly
- If you can't reproduce the bug, ask for the reporter to provide more information
- If you reproduce the bug, add your testing information and mark the bug NEW
- Notify Anthony Hughes of the NEW issue
- Current Status (Vlad Ghetiu / Virgil Dicu) - Last Updated
Aurora Merge
The following are the detailed results of the automated BFT test runs.
Platform | Result: report |
Windows 2000 | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
- Known Issues
2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Updates
The following are details of update verifications for Firefox 15 merge to Aurora
- Auroratest
- {{|}} [tester] Windows XP:
- {{|}} [tester] Windows 7:
- {{|}} [tester] Mac OS X 10.6:
- {{|}} [tester] Ubuntu 11.04:
- Aurora
- {{|}} [tester] Windows XP:
- {{|}} [tester] Windows 7:
- {{|}} [tester] Mac OS X 10.6:
- {{|}} [tester] Ubuntu 11.04:
- Issues Found
Manual Spot Checks and Feature Sign-Off
Are all features implemented at this point working?
Manual spot Checks [spreadsheet]
- Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 7 x64, Ubuntu 11.10, Mac 10.6
- Found known issues:
- New issues:
- Status:
Run the Firefox 16 Aurora Merge Feature Sign-Off tests in MozTrap and report results below.
Feature | Owner | Win32 | Mac | Linux |
Panel Based Download Manager | Simona Badau | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
OS X 10.7 support - Not landed | Vlad Ghetiu | N/A - 2012-07-19 | N/A - 2012-07-19 | N/A - 2012-07-19 |
Opt-in activation for plugins | Paul Silaghi | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
Speedy Session Restore | Paul Silaghi | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Developer Toolbar | Virgil Dicu | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Command Line | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
Show PDF Inline | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
Incremental Garbage Collection | Ioana Budnar | PASS - 2012-07-19 | PASS - 2012-07-20 | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
Notes:
- OS X 10.7 support - not landed
Smoke tests
Run the smoketests in MozTrap and report results below.
Platform | Assignee | Result: report |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Windows 7 64-bit | Paul | PASS - 2012-07-20 |
Mac OS X 10.7.4 | VladG | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | Virgil | PASS - 2012-07-19 |
Known Issues
ID | Summary | Priority | Status |
---|---|---|---|
692446 | Firefox prompts to install windows media player plugin even though it is already installed | -- | RESOLVED |
775491 | HTML5 unresponsive script errors on YouTube (unresponsive script name: html5player-vflGWJljH.js) | -- | RESOLVED |
2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Pre-beta Feature testing and Sign-off
Manual spot Checks [spreadsheet]
- Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 7 x64, Ubuntu 11.10, Mac 10.6
- Found known issues:
- New issues:
- Status:
Run the Firefox 16 Aurora Merge Feature Sign-Off tests in MozTrap and report results below.
Feature | Owner | Win32 | Mac | Linux |
In-content_preferences | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 |
Panel Based Download Manager | Simona Badau | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 |
OS X 10.7 support | Vlad Ghetiu | NA - 2012-08-24 | NA - 2012-08-24 | NA - 2012-08-24 |
Opt-in activation for plugins | Paul Silaghi | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 | disabled - 2012-08-24 |
Speedy Session Restore | Paul Silaghi | NA - 2012-08-24 | NA - 2012-08-24 | NA - 2012-08-24 |
Developer Toolbar | Virgil Dicu | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Command Line | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Show PDF Inline | Mihaela Velimiroviciu | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Incremental Garbage Collection | Ioana Budnar | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Notes:
- OS X 10.7 support: Not yet implemented.
- Speedy Session Restore: backed out.
Smoke tests
Run the smoketests in MozTrap and report results below.
Platform | Assignee | Result: report |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Windows 7 64-bit | VladG | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Mac OS X 10.7.4 | VladG | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | Virgil | PASS - 2012-08-24 |
Known Issues
ID | Summary | Priority | Status |
---|---|---|---|
775082 | Video controls disappear after dragging the tabs | -- | RESOLVED |
784289 | Inspector button remains open in devtoolbar when closing the Inspector via x button | -- | RESOLVED |
2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 2 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Beta 1
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20120828083259 |
Changeset | c4e1ca772267 (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [DONE] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- {{ |}} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | PASS: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Windows 8 32-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
Windows 8 64-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-28 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Windows 7 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Windows 7 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-08-29 | N/A | PASS - 2012-08-29 |
Plug-in Compatibility
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- 11.3 Release
- Flash 11.4 beta (make sure you can autoupdate)
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- AVG Safe Search 12.0.0.1912 is not compatible with Firefox 15 beta.
- AVG Security Toolbar can't be installed on Win XP - we get a blue screen while installing it.
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Not currently available. Investigating if we can get this software.
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
- The toolbar can't be installed on Firefox.
Web Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing
- Partial: 15.0b6
- Complete: 15.0b5 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual - see below | manual - see below |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual - see below | manual - see below |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-08-29 | PASS - 2012-08-30 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 14.0b6 en-US (complete)
- PASS - Firefox 14.0b6 zh-TW (complete)
- BETA
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 14.0b6 en-US (complete)
- PASS - Firefox 14.0b6 zh-TW (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage
- VERIFYME (3): verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (221): triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (3): triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (3): triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 50/221
- WONTVERIFY: 21/221
- HELPWANTED: 14/221
Beta 2
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20120904124322 |
Changeset | cad589192f3c (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [DONE] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- {{ |}} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 2
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | PASS: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Windows 8 32-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
Windows 8 64-bit | N/A (pending IT) |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-05 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 2
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Windows 7 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Windows 8 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Virgil | PASS - 2012-09-07 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Windows 7 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-07 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Windows 8 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-09-07 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-07 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-07 |
Plug-in Compatibility 2
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility 2
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility 2
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail 2
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing 2
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End 2
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 2
- Partial: 16.0b1
- Complete: 15.0b6 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual - see below | manual - see below |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - see below | PASS - see below |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-06 | PASS - 2012-09-06 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- PASS - Firefox 16.0b1 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- BETA
- PASS - Firefox 16.0b1 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage 2
- VERIFYME : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: Verified/Fixed Ratio
- WONTVERIFY: Won't Verify/Fixed Ratio
- HELPWANTED: Help Wanted/Fixed Ratio
Beta 3
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20120911232325 |
Changeset | de3f06a549de (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [ON TRACK] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- [DONE] Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 3
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | PASS: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 3
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 7 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-13 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 7 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-13 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-13 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-09-12 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-12 |
Plug-in Compatibility 3
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility 3
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility 3
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail 3
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing 3
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End 3
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 3
- Partial: 16.0b2
- Complete: 15.0b6 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-13 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-13 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-13 | PASS - 2012-09-13 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- PASS - Firefox 16.0b1 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- BETA
- PASS - Firefox 16.0b2 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage 3
- VERIFYME (3) : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (184) : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (8) : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (10) : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 37/249
- WONTVERIFY: 23/249
- HELPWANTED: 5/249
Beta 4
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20120919065210 |
Changeset | c3be659f6121 |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [ON TRACK] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 4
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-19 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 4
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Vlad, Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-21 | PASS - 2012-09-21 | PASS - 2012-09-21 |
Windows 7 | Simona | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-20 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Windows 7 | Simona | PASS - 2012-09-20 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Windows 8 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-20 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-20 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-20 |
Plug-in Compatibility 4
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility 4
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Babylon toolbar can't be installed on Firefox 16 - bug 721264
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility 4
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail 4
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing 4
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End 4
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 4
- Partial: 16.0b3
- Complete: 16.0b2 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-19 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-19 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-20 | RESULT - 2012-09-19 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- PASS - Firefox 16.0b3 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- BETA
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0b3 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage 4
- VERIFYME (?) : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (?) : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (?) : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (?) : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: ratios
- WONTVERIFY: ratios
- HELPWANTED: ratios
Verification Spreadsheet
Beta 5
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20120925201946 |
Changeset | 7c0af9b7ed61 (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [ON TRACK] Bug Triage
- [DONE] Peer Sign-off
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 5
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 5
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-27 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-09-26 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 | Paul | PASS - 2012-09-26 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-09-26 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-27 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-09-27 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | PASS - 2012-09-27 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-09-27 | N/A | PASS - 2012-09-27 |
Plug-in Compatibility 5
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility 5
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Babylon toolbar can't be installed on Firefox 16 - bug 721264
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility 5
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail 5
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing 5
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End 5
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Windows 8
Test Firefox integration with Windows 8 - etherpad.
Update Testing 5
- Partial: 16.0b4
- Complete: 16.0b3 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-19 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual-see below - 2012-09-19 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-09-26 | RESULT - 2012-09-26 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0b4 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- BETA
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0b4 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage 5
- VERIFYME (19) : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (184) : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (6) : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (14) : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 81/296
- WONTVERIFY: 30/296
- HELPWANTED: 5/296
Beta 6
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20121002073616 |
Changeset | 8a8a932fbef4 (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [ON TRACK] Bug Triage
- [ON TRACK] Peer Sign-off
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 6
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 6
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Paul/Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 | Ioana | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8 | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-10-03 | PASS - 2012-10-03 | PASS - 2012-10-03 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Paul/Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-02 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 | Ioana/Paul | PASS - 2012-10-02 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8 | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-02 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-10-03 | PASS - 2012-10-03 | PASS - 2012-10-03 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-02 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-02 |
Plug-in Compatibility 6
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility 6
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility 6
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail 6
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing 6
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End 6
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 6
- Partial: 16.0b5
- Complete: 16.0b4 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual-see below - 2012-10-02 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual-see below - 2012-10-02 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-02 | RESULT - 2012-10-02 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0b5 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- BETA
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0b5 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0b6 de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage 6
- VERIFYME (10) : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (181) : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (4) : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (18) : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 87/303
- WONTVERIFY: 31/303
- HELPWANTED: 4/303
Release Candidate
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20121005155445 |
Changeset | 10fe550fadc6 |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- [ON TRACK] Bug Triage
- {{|}} Peer Sign-off
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Release channel
Automated Testing RC
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing RC
Operating System | Tester | Plug-in Compatibility | Add-on Compatibility | Web Compatibility |
Windows XP | Ioana | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Windows 7 | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-08 | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Windows 8 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-08 | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-08 |
Operating System | Tester | Web Mail | Mac 10.8 Signing | Breakpad |
Windows XP | Paul | PASS - 2012-10-09 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Windows 7 | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-09 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Windows 8 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-09 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Mac OS X | VladG | PASS - 2012-10-09 | PASS - 2012-10-08 | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Ubuntu 12.04 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-08 | N/A | PASS - 2012-10-09 |
Plug-in Compatibility
Install the following plug-ins and go to websites which use them, looking for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes.
- Adobe Flash Player
- Microsoft Silverlight
- RealPlayer
- Real Player plugin crashed when opening pages with content managed by the plugin: click, click - bug 667399
- QuickTime
Add-on Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. Pay particular attention to any problems seen after updating Firefox with add-ons installed.
- Top AMO add-ons
- AVG toolbar (installed via AVG software)
- Norton toolbar (installed via Norton software)
- Yahoo toolbar
- Yandex toolbar
- Babylon toolbar
- Ad-Aware Antivirus
Web Compatibility
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes
- Overall Top 10
- Top by Country (pick a random site from three random countries)
- Top by Category (pick a random site from three random categories)
- Webmail clients like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail (pay particular attention to any built in web messenger software)
- Try Google's MapsGL demo
- Try YouTube's HTML5 demo
Web Mail
Test the following websites for rendering issues, functional issues, performance issues, and crashes. In particular make sure email, attachments, web messenger, and video chat are working as expected.
Mac 10.8 Signing
NOTE: Test needs to be run from a clean Mac OSX 10.8 install. Please keep a vanilla image handy so you can restore once completing this test (more info).
- Download the .dmg file and drag the Firefox.app file to a location on your computer
- Open a terminal window and cd to the folder Firefox.app is located
- Run codesign -vv Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain valid on disk and satisfies its Designated Requirement
- Run xattr Firefox.app in terminal, output should contain com.apple.quarantine
- Double click the Firefox.app icon, you should see a warning about the program being provided by an unknown developer or having been downloaded from the Internet
- Click "open" and browse to any website, Firefox should start and you should be able to browse
- Quit Firefox and double click the Firefox.app icon again, you should not be reprompted for the warning in step 5, firefox should start up and browse without any issues
Spot check build after this test
- Try all the menu item functions
- Gestures
- Plug-in compatibility
- Top-site compatibility
- Add-on compatibility
- Software update
Breakpad End-to-End
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing RC
- Partial: 15.0.1
- Complete: 12.0 and earlier
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS- see below - 2012-10-09 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS- see below - 2012-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2010-10-08 | RESULTS - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- BETATEST
- PASS - Firefox 15.0.1 en-US de (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 12.0 en-US fr (complete)
- RELEASE
- RESULT - Firefox 15.0.1 en-US de (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 12.0 en-US de (complete)
- Issues
Bug Triage RC
- VERIFYME (9) : verify the fix and do some exploratory testing around the issue
- FIXED (178) : triage these bugs and test to ensure the fix is effective
- QAWANTED (8) : triage these bugs and test to fulfill the QA request
- UNCONFIRMED (21) : triage these bugs for potential new regressions
- Results
- VERIFIED: 89/304
- WONTVERIFY: 32/304
- HELPWANTED: 5/304
16.0.1
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20121010144125 |
Changeset | 7789ab68a99d (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [DONE] Update Testing
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Release channel
Automated Testing 7
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 7
There will be four bug verifications and testing around these bugs
- Results
Platform | Tester | 16.0.1 Candidates |
Windows XP | juanb, ashughes, mwobensmith | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Windows Vista | tester | RESULT - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 7 32-bit | tester | RESULT - 2012-10-10 |
Windows 7 64-bit | juanb, ashughes, mwobensmith | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | tester | RESULT - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | juanb, ashughes, mwobensmith | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | tester | RESULT - 2012-10-10 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | tester | RESULT - 2012-10-10 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | juanb, ashughes, mwobensmith | PASS - 2012-10-10 |
- Issues Found
Breakpad End-to-End 7
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 7
- Partial: 13.0.1, 14.0.1, 15.0.1
- Complete: 12.0, 13.0
Platform | Releasetest: report | Release: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Windows 8 32-bit | Pass- juanb - 2012-10-11 | Pass - juanb - 2012-10-11 |
Windows 8 64-bit | Pass- juanb - 2012-10-11 | Pass - 2012-10-11 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-11 | PASS - 2012-10-11 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- PASS - Firefox 16.0 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 15.0.1 de (partial)
- RELEASE
- PASS - Firefox 16.0 en-US (partial)
- PASS - Firefox 12.0 fr (complete)
- Issues
16.0.2
Builds | FTP, HTTP |
ID | 20121024073032 |
Changeset | 3995ff235342 (pushlog) |
- Checklist
- [DONE] Automated Testing
- [DONE] Manual Testing
- [ON TRACK] Update Testing
- {{ | }} Final sign-off sent and updates qualified on Beta channel
Automated Testing 8
The following are the detailed results of the automated Mozmill test runs.
Platform | RESULT: report |
Windows XP | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Windows Vista | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 7 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 7 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 8 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 8 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | PASS - 2012-10-24 |
- Test Failures (known bugs)
Manual Testing 8
There will be X bug verifications and testing around these bugs. Basic functionality spot checking - etherpad.
- Results
Platform | Tester | 16.0.2 Candidates |
Windows XP | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Windows Vista | Simona | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Windows 7 32-bit | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Windows 7 64-bit | Manuela | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Mac OS X 10.6 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | Virgil | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | Mihaela | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | Ioana | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | Ioana | PASS - 2012-10-25 |
- Issues Found
Breakpad End-to-End 8
Test the end-to-end functionality in the crash reporting feature, across operating systems.
- Use the Crash Me add-on to trigger a crash
- Set up a dirty profile with lots of history, bookmarks, add-ons, themes, tabs, app-tabs, plugin content loaded, etc
- Repeatedly crash Firefox and submit your reports
- Verify that your session restores properly
- Verify your crash reports are submitted properly by going through about:crashes and clicking the reports
- Try adding comments to your crash report and verify the crash-stats.com report shows the comment
Update Testing 8
- Partial: 14.0.1, 15.0.1, 16.0.1
- Complete: 12.0, 13.0
Platform | Releasetest: report | Beta: report |
Windows XP | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Windows Vista | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 7 32-bit | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 7 64-bit | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 8 32-bit | manual-see below - 2012-10-02 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Windows 8 64-bit | manual-see below - 2012-10-02 | Results - yyyy-mm-dd |
Mac OS X 10.6 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Mac OS X 10.7 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Mac OS X 10.8 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit | RESULT - 2012-10-24 | RESULT - 2012-10-24 |
Windows 8: manual spotcheck until automation in place
- RELEASETEST
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0.1 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 13.0 de (complete)
- RELEASE
- RESULT - Firefox 16.0.1 en-US (partial)
- RESULT - Firefox 12.0 fr (complete)
- Issues
Issues
Blockers
1 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
Non-Blockers
6 Total; 1 Open (16.67%); 5 Resolved (83.33%); 0 Verified (0%);
Previously Known
22 Total; 2 Open (9.09%); 18 Resolved (81.82%); 2 Verified (9.09%);