Releases/Firefox 74/Test Plan

Summary

The purpose of this page is to track the testing of Firefox 74 from Nightly to Release, and post Release if needed.

Release schedule

• Release Scheduling calendar
• Rapid Release calendar

Status meetings

The Channel Status meeting is used to raise quality concerns with the Release Management team.

• When: every Tuesday (10:00 AM Pacific) and Thursday (08:00 AM Pacific)
• Where: ReleaseCoordination (Zoom)
• IRC backchannel: #planning
• Meeting notes: notes archive

QA points of contact

Communication channels

• Slack: #qa-coordination

Firefox for Desktop

Engineering QA

• Reporting to: Tom Grabowski, Tania Maity
• Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
• Team Leads: Brindusa Tot
• Offices: Romania (EEST), Argentina (GMT-3)
• Responsible for: new feature testing, Nightly build readiness, Nightly build regression testing, bug triage, bug verification, bug investigation

Release QA

• Reporting to: Tom Grabowski, Tania Maity
• Softvision Manager: Andrei Vaida
• Team Leads: Bogdan Maris, Cornel Ionce
• Office: Romania (EEST)
• Responsible for: new feature testing, Beta build readiness, Developer Edition build readiness, ESR build readiness, RC build readiness, Dot release build readiness, Chemspill build readiness, bug verification, bug investigation

Firefox for Mobile

Release QA

• Reporting to: No-Jun Park
• Softvision Manager: Ioana Chiorean
• Team Lead: Sorina Florean
• Office: Romania (EEST)
• Responsible for: todo

Firefox for iOS QA

• Reporting to: No-Jun Park
• Softvision Manager: Ioana Chiorean
• Team Lead: Catalin Suciu
• Office: Romania (EEST)
• Responsible for: todo

AMO, WebExtensions

Add-ons QA

• Reporting to: Krupa Raj
• Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
• Team Leads: Victor Carciu, Madalin Cotetiu
• Office: Romania (EEST)
• Responsible for: AMO feature testing, AMO weekly release, AMO Sanity, AMO bug verification, Webextensions features, Webextensions bug triage and verification, Telemetry

Experiments, Normandy, Subscription services, and other Firefox features

Experiments QA

• Reporting to: Krupa Raj
• Softvision Manager: Rares Bologa
• Team Leads: Paul Oiegas
• Office: Romania (EEST)
• Responsible for: testing Experiments, Normandy, Experimenter website, Activity Stream, Screenshots, Send (Web & Android) and Lockbox Desktop.

QA activities

New feature readiness

All new features tested by QA and shipping with Firefox 74 are available here.

The feature testing process followed by QA is available here.

Bug fix verification

• Daily verification of uplifted bugs - these are uplifts, triaged daily and verified under ~48hrs
• Ongoing verification of Nightly bugs - this is the general bug verification done throughout the Nightly cycle; it sometimes overlaps with uplifts verification; also involves active monitoring of qe-verify? bugs
• Ongoing verification of Beta bugs - this is the general bug verification done throughout the Beta cycle; it sometimes overlaps with uplifts verification; also involves active monitoring of qe-verify? bugs
• On-demand verification of bugs - these are special requests (ideally coming in through PI, but also through Bugzilla needinfo?, chat or emails)
• Periodical verification of security bugs - these are post-critsmash bugs, triaged and verified ~every 2wks

Unconfirmed bug triage

This is the triage conducted by Engineering QA.

Security bug triage

This is the post-CritSmash triage conducted by Engineering QA (on Nightly) and Release QA (on Beta, Release, ESR).

Bug investigation

This is the daily check and investigation of new regressionwindow-wanted bugs, conducted by Engineering QA and Release QA.

Nightly 74 milestones

[early/mid cycle] Nightly build readiness

Scope: assess build readiness for shipping to Beta by testing Nightly periodically and providing a list of issues (if any) that need to be addressed before the merge (more on this).

Nightly 73.0a1(2019-05-30)

• Build: 74.0a1 (commit, ID) - N.A.
  • [DONE] Functional testing (manual) → [- report]
    • New bugs
      • Regressions: --
      • Non-regressions: --
    • Known bugs
      • High-impact: --
      • Low/medium-impact: [link bug list]

Nightly 73.0a1 (2019-06-13)

• Build: 73.0a1 (commit, ID) - N.A.
  • [NOT STARTED] Functional testing (manual) → report
    • New bugs
      • Regressions: --
      • Non-regressions: --
    • Known bugs
      • High-impact: --
      • Low/medium-impact: [link bug list]

[prior to merge] Nightly regression testing

Nightly 73.0a1 (date)

• Build: 74.0a1 (commit, ID) - Sign off_Status
  • [NOT STARTED] Regression testing (manual) → [report]
    • New bugs
      • Regressions: ID1, ID2, IDn
      • Non-regressions: ID1, ID2, IDn
    • Known bugs
      • High-impact: ID1, ID2, IDn
      • Low/medium-impact: [bug list]

[optional] [prior to merge] Nightly new feature smoke testing

Note: this is optional, based on available QA bandwidth.

Beta 74 milestones

Developer Edition build readiness

DevEd 74.0b1a(placeholder)

• Build: 74.0b1-build1 (ea93a9ceeea1a0b8cacb5c9038e1fa1d00e50bc6, 20200106175743) - Placeholder
  • Functional tests (manual):
    • [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Tabbed Browser , OS Integration , User Profile , Form Autofill , Bookmarks → TestRail

Beta build readiness

74.0b1

• Build: 74.0b1-build2 (2a94604e87b3, 20200210140608) - Done
  • Functional tests (manual):
    • [DONE] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Tabbed Browser, OS Integration, User Profile, Form Autofill, Bookmarks → TestRail
    • [DONE] Bug fix verification
  • Update tests (manual):
    • [DONE] beta, aurora → report

Beta build readiness

74.0b2

• Build: 74.0b2-build1 (2a94604e87b3, 20200210140608) - In progress
  • Functional tests (manual):
    • [IN PROGRESS] Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing on Startup and Profile, Address Bar and Search, Downloads, Security and Privacy → TestRail
    • [DONE] Bug fix verification
  • Update tests (manual):
    • [NOT STARTED] beta, aurora → report