Community Testday: Location Bar for Firefox 3, Friday, August 8, 2008
Stephen Donner
It's time to revisit the Location Bar in Firefox 3! Join us Friday,
August 8th, 2008 in #testday on IRC from 7am - 5pm PDT. Here is how you
can help us:
1. Install either the latest nightly build from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ (preferable), or
install Firefox 3.01.
2. We'd appreciate your running through the testcases in
https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?searchType=by_category&product_id=1&branch_id=15&testgroup_id=56&subgroup_id=781.
if you'd prefer testing on your own, that's fine too!
3. Provide us with your feedback and any testing updates by leaving a
comment on this event post! It's the easiest way to collect information
about this Test Day, so don't be afraid to say hello and tell us how
your day went.
How to prepare for Test Day:
* Save your profile data! You should either back up your profile or use
the profile manager to create a new profile for testing.
* Get the new Mozilla QA Companion ! It's the easiest way to run test
cases, search for bugs, and get connected on IRC... so it's the perfect
tool for Test Days!
Getting started on Test Day:
First join us in #testday on irc.mozilla.org so you can chat with
the Mozilla QA team and community. There are always people in the
channel to meet, work with, and get help from.
Then choose one or more of the following things to do:
* Run various test cases on Litmus! Ask for help in the
#testday channel if you're not familiar with Litmus. If a testcase is
terribly unclear, mark it as such. When you have questions about using
Litmus, please ask the moderators in the testday channel or see the
Litmus tutorial.
* Help verify FIXED bugs: http://tinyurl.com/55bt6e . (If you're
verifying fixed bugs, please make sure that either A) the bug you're
verifying was fixed in 3.0 OR B) you're running a trunk nightly.)
* When you have time and interest in writing testcases, please ping
Marcia and/or Tomcat in the #testday channel. We have also a short
documentation on how to write testcases for litmus.
For more general information about Test Days, visit
http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days
Other Stuff
* If you want to help us test various pre-releases early and often
(alphas, betas, release candidates), join our betatesters mailing list!
* If you are interesting in specific Testing on Mac (10.4 and also
Leopard) and Vista please see http://quality.mozilla.org/node/287 and if
you want to be more involved in Mozilla in general, please see
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/university/
Hope to see you on Friday 8/8/2008 for our Location Bar Test Day!
Thanks,
Stephen Donner (stephend) and the Mozilla QA Team