QA/Fennec/18/Beta/3
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Fennec (Firefox for Android) 18.0 Beta 3 Test Plan
- Release: Week of December 3rd, 2012
- QA Contact: Aaron Train; Kevin Brosnan
- IRC: irc://irc.mozilla.org#qa ping AaronMT; kbrosnan; ioanachiorean;
- Builds: Fennec (Firefox for Android) 18 Beta 3 | changeset | pushlog
Features
See the Feature Release Tracking wiki for a general overview of this release. Found below are a subset of all high-priority items
| Feature | Owner | Status | Tests |
| Android Snippets | Tracy | blocked | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References |
| Safe Browsing | IoanaChiorean | in progress | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References |
| Android Global Search | Nicolae (:xti) | Completed | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References |
| [Readability Improvements (Font Inflation)] | PaulFeher | in progress | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References |
| [Graphics (Checkerboarding Improvements)] | in progress | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References | |
| Custom Menu, stage 2 | AdrianT | Completed | QA Feature Tracking & MozTrap References |
Smoketests
| QA Task | Person/Group | How Often? |
| Smoketests | Softvision | Every Beta |
Light verification tests (or smoketests) will be first run when the builds are ready. Tests are available on Mozilla Moztrap under the 18.0 smoketest suite. In any case of failure in any Smoketest, blockers need to be raised ASAP before proceeding to the BFTs.
| Assigned | Device | Completed | Results |
| Adrian Tamas | Motorola Droid 3 (Android 2.3.4) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Paul Feher | LG Slider (Android 2.3.4) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Ioana Chiorean | Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1, ARMv7) | December 5th, 2012 | PASS |
| Paul Feher | Motorola Droid Pro (Android 2.3.4) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Nicolae Cristian | Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" (Android 4.0.4) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Andreea Pod | Asus EEE Transformer (Android 4.0.3) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Catalin Suciu | Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 3.1) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
Exploratory Testing around IME
| QA Task | Person/Group | How Often? |
| BFTs | Softvision | Alternating |
Basic Functional Tests are a more comprehensive set of Mozilla Moztrap manually covered tests that cover functional testing of features that have landed.
Android Permissions Testing
| QA Task | Person/Group | How Often? |
| Verification | Softvision | Every Beta |
| Assigned | Device | Completed | Results |
| Paul Feher | LG Slider (Android 2.3.4, ARMv6) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Ioana Chiorean | Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
| Catalin Suciu | Samsung Galaxy Tab (Android 3.1) | December 6th, 2012 | PASS |
Detailed Android Permissions Testing Results
Verify permissions between what is currently on the store and with this beta build candidate.
Details: Android Permissions
L10N (Localization) Spot Checks
| QA Task | Person/Group | How Often? |
| Spot Check Verification | SoftVision | Every Beta |
Light testing on featured locales to ensure strings fit the space allotted and there are no entity errors from missing or corrupt localizations.
| Assigned | Device | Completed | Results |
| Ioana Chiorean | Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1, ARMv7) | December 5th, 2012 | Pass - no changes |
Branch Bug Fix Verifications
| QA Task | Person/Group | How Often? |
| Verification | Softvision | Every Beta |
AppThwack Automation
| QA Task | Person/Group | How often? |
| Runs against ARMv6 and ARMv7 | Aaron | Alternating |
Automated installation, uninstallation, and Android Monkeyrunner tests against uploaded ARM6 and ARMv7 builds; primarily useful for detecting startup crashes, incompatibilities, install-times and UI oddities
| Assigned | Build | Completed | Results |
| Ioana Chiorean | fennec-18.0b3.multi.android-arm-armv6.apk | December 6th, 2012 | Pass |
Functions/Features
[In Progress] Product Announcements
- Direct link to the feature page
- Google ToS privacy investigation bug 769149
16 Total; 0 Open (0%); 15 Resolved (93.75%); 1 Verified (6.25%);
[In Progress] Support for use of custom fonts
- Feature Page is here
- Reflow-on-zoom landed, preff'ed off by default, but can be enabled by a settings-menu option: bug 710298, bug 795932
- Message was sent to MTD but we need more directed testing
- Kats is still working on a prototype: it should esp help with constrained height
- We will turn the knobs to identify a sweet spot between font inflation, reflow, shipping with fonts
- Hiding URL bar <== don't have status on this, need bug number?
[In Progress] New web content font
- A sample font from Font Shop is being tested internally; UX and Brad are living with the fonts for about a week to get a sense of legibility (Reader Mode as first priority; rest of UI to be investigated).
- We may need to do some extra work to load system fonts firts, still need to add support for open-type fonts (small patch required) and set prefs for stock fonts vs. our fonts
[In Progress] Search Suggestions Opt-In
- Search suggestions opt-in workflow
| ID | Summary | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 586885 | show search suggestions when entering text in awesome bar | P3 | VERIFIED |
| 773788 | Provide client-side urlbar suggestions for top domains | -- | RESOLVED |
2 Total; 0 Open (0%); 1 Resolved (50%); 1 Verified (50%);
[Landed] Phishing & Malware Protection
| ID | Summary | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 651860 | revise safebrowsing UI for mobile | -- | RESOLVED |
| 741808 | Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component | -- | RESOLVED |
| 781689 | Remove usage of nsIDOMWindowUtils.goOnline() in mobile's netError.xhtml | -- | RESOLVED |
3 Total; 0 Open (0%); 3 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);
