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April 11th, 2008 Test Day: Top Crashes, Wanted Bugs, Feedback, and you!

Mon, 2008-04-07 17:53 — tchung
2008-04-11 07:00
2008-04-12 05:00
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Hey Everyone!

Now that we're finished with the betas, its time to get extra critical of all the outstanding bugs and critical crashers roaming around in bugzilla! We need your help on this upcoming testday to assist with:

  • Top Crashes analysis from beta 5 and nightlies
  • Confirming bugs marked needing qawanted help
  • Analyzing mozilla feedback from the community and looking for patterns in common issues found

Join us Friday, April 11th, 2008 in #testday on IRC from 7am - 5pm PDT. Here is how you can help us:

  1. Analyze the Top reported crashes in the beta 5 and nightlies at crash-stats.mozilla.com. Direct link here.
  2. Query bugs that are marked "qawanted" keywords, that needs confirmation for firefox 3 builds. Direct link here.
  3. Review feedback from direct contributors, and look for common and consistent issues that need to verification and bug reports in the newsgroups. These include [Mozilla.Feedback] | [Mozilla.Feedback.Firefox] | [Mozilla.Feedback.Firefox.Prerelease]

How to prepare for Test Day:

* Download the latest Firefox 3 Beta or grab a Firefox Nightly Build
* 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:

* Read through the links to crashes, feedback, and qawanted queries above
or...
* 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 .
* 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 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/

Thanks,
The Mozilla QA team