Thunderbird 3.0 B4 is approaching release time. To make sure that we release a great beta we are going to run a Basic Functional Test suite. This is a set of tests that will ensure that the product as a quality level acceptable to be released to a wider public. To do that we need some of our users to take a step forward a give us a bit of time - something between 20 minutes and an hour. That time will be spent testing the release candidate and make sure that it is defect free as can be.

This is what we're doing...

To get started with this you'll need to do a few things :

• Create an account on litmus or make sure you have one
• Create a account on bugzilla or make sure that you have one

 
Litmus is the software that we use to figure out what as been tested, when by whom on what os. This is the place where the test are stored. We will use a test_run in litmus to track our effort.
 

The new feature that the thunderbird team as been working are almost ready to be exposed to a wider audience. For that those new fetaure needs a bit testing. To do this we need people with a fresh perspective and that are willing to spend an hour or two using the features and giving the Thunderbird team some feedback and telling us what bugs we have left into those new features.

To gather bugs and feedback we are having a test day.

This is what we're doing...

The test days is a social event where you can "meet" other people like you that care about thunderbird and are also giving a bit of their free time to the project by testing.
 
The areas that needs testing are described at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2009-09-10 Please take the time to read that page and join us.

MozQA is holding a Testday on the new features for Firefox 3.6!  We're going to playing around with the new features and performing exploratory testing as well as running Fx3.6 BFT's. For those that are interested, this will be a chance for people to possibly sign up and own those features for the next release!. Our Fx3.6 Test Lead as well as the mozQA Community will be available through IRC Chat ( channel #testday on irc://irc.mozilla.org ), QMO forums as well as the dev-quality newsgroup to help with any of your questions/comments/suggestions.

How do I get ready?

2. Head over to the Firefox 3.6 Test Plan Wiki

This is what we're doing...

Mozilla QA needs your help with testing the newfeatures of Firefox 3.6!
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This area will be updated as the day approaches.
 
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Please note the new date - Wednesday, September 23 at 6:30 PM.

Join us for an exciting exploration of the Firefox 3.6 product (code name: Namoroka) which is currently in development!

How do I get ready?

Download nightly builds from: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Awesomeformcomplete is the feature we will be testing during this live testing event.  Please try to read the wiki page to familiarize yourself with this feature before the Wednesday session.

I will also have a test instructions page available at the meetup, and a place for us to record our findings during this test event.

This is what we're doing...

Location:

Mozilla Headquarters

650 Castro Street, Suite 300
Mountain View, CA 94041

Start Time: 6:30 PM for Pizza and Mingling

Testing will begin at 7 PM

The Test Plan is here: https://wiki.mozilla.... and describes some of the features that will be in this release. Here is the tentative plan for this meetup: