Mobile Web Compatibility Testing - We Need Your Help!

[Jason Smith]

Hi Firefox Mobile Testers,

We need help testing top sites on firefox mobile to capture site
compatibility problems. This testing involves visiting a select list of
top sites and providing feedback on whether a site renders correctly
(CSS & layout) and whether it functions correctly. Why is this
important? See this post (http://jasondanielsmith.wordpress.com/2 ...
vs-webkit/
<http://jasondanielsmith.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/apps-mobile-web-compatibility-gecko-vs-webkit/>)
for more information on why this testing is important to do.

Here are the steps to test:

1. Install a nightly build (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) on your Android
device
2. Launch Firefox Mobile and go to this URL (http://mzl.la/fennectest)
3. Click on the URL that is shown to open the site in a new tab and try
it out
4. Go back to the original tab and provide your feedback
5. File bugs in the fennec native evangelism component
(http://bit.ly/JaSbvI) on site compatibility problems

For step 3, trying it out means looking for things such as:

- If I went to site on firefox mobile and the android stock browser, are
they the same? Does firefox mobile perform at the same level of quality
or better than the android stock browser? Why or Why not?
- Looking at the layout of the site, does anything not look right to
you? For example, does the layout of the buttons make sense? Does the
color make sense? Do pop-ups come up correctly? Do videos play?

On step 3, if you land on a site that you don't understand, then you can
select skip to get a different website to test.

Don't know how to file a bug in step 5? To get started, create an
account on bugzilla here
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/createaccount.cgi). Then, select file a
bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi). Select Fennec Native.
Then, in the component field, select Evangelism. In the version field,
select Firefox 15. In the Hardware field, select ARM. In the OS field,
select Android. Then, provide a short summary of the problem in the
summary field. In the description, provide reproducible steps, the
expected results, the actual results, and any additional notes with
noting. If you have any screenshots of the problem, then attach them to
the bug.

We would greatly appreciate your help doing the testing task above! If
you have any questions, then reply to this message with your questions
to me (jsm...@mozilla.com) and Aaron Train (atr...@mozilla.com).

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Sincerely,
Jason Smith

Desktop QA Engineer
Mozilla Corporation
https://quality.mozilla.org/