QA/Places

Intro

Places is currently enabled starting with Firefox 3 and it represents the engine behind History, Bookmarks, Livemarks, Annotations, Microsummaries and the Awesomebar.

Feature Ownership

QA Lead: Andrei Vaida, :avaida on IRC

Documentation

• Places developer documentation

mozillaZine

• Livemarks documentation
• Autocomplete behavior documentation
• Inline autocomplete documentation
• Location Bar search documentation

MozillaWiki

• Bookmarks Use Cases
• History Use Cases

• Awesomebar documentation

Related features

• Async-friendly transaction manager
• Unified Autocomplete
• requestAutocomplete for Firefox desktop

Related prefs

• Async-friendly transaction manager enabler pref:

browser.places.asyncTransactions

• Unified Autocomplete enabler pref:

browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete

• requestAutoComplete() enabler prefs:

dom.forms.autocomplete.experimental

dom.forms.requestAutocomplete

Testing approach

All testing activities will focus on each sub-feature separately: e.g. Bookmarks, as well as on the interactions between all sub-features: e.g. Bookmarks - Livemarks.

Test plans

• [OUTDATED] Async-friendly transaction manager
• Unified Autocomplete

MozTrap tests

Places smoketests available here.

[IN PROGRESS] Unified Autoomplete tests available here.

• Test suite draft available as a google spreadsheet.

One and Done tasks

[TODO]

Tasks for this feature are also available on One and Done, right here.

Bug work

Bugzilla queries

Unconfirmed bugs

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<bugzilla> {

 "include_fields":"id,summary,component,op_sys",
 "component":"Places",
 "status":"UNCONFIRMED"

}

</bugzilla>

qe-verify+ bugs

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<bugzilla> {

 "include_fields":"id,summary,component,op_sys",
 "component":"Places",
 "flagtypes.name":"qe-verify+"

} </bugzilla>

Verified Fixed bugs

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<bugzilla> { "id":"1005855,1047433,751709,1042268,1053357,1051830,1053245,1048513,1034381,1048857,1003931,1047600,1039904,1040335,1042519,693808,1020865,1033463,988070,853549,993391,891303,956906" } </bugzilla>

Upcoming UX changes

• Firefox: Bookmarks & History, Location Bar, Microsummaries, RSS Discovery and Preview, Search - Bugzilla Query.
• Toolkit: Places - Bugzilla Query.

Sign-offs

Aurora sign-offs

Async-friendly transaction manager:

• [DONE] Aurora 32: landed without QA sign-off

Unified Autocomplete:

• [DISABLED] Aurora 34: disabled due to incomplete UI implementation