Welcome to
the Firefox Test Day/Bug Day page!

Thank you for your interest in Firefox Test Days and Bug Days. The success and
quality of Firefox is dependent on community members like you, so we
appreciate your help with testing!

As we get closer to the release of Firefox 3, we will be having Test
Days every Friday! So you will have plenty of chances to get involved.

Here's how to participate...

• Get on IRC... join #testday on irc.mozilla.org or #bugday(see FAQ
  below for help)
• Choose one or more of the following things to do:
  • Run Basic
    Functional Tests (BFT) or Full Functional Tests (FFT) 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.
  • Try some ad-hoc
    testing of features and file/update bugs in Bugzilla!
    • If
      you see an issue, raise it in #testday so people there can confirm it.
      Then search for the bug in Bugzilla...
      if does not exist, please log a new bug and let everyone know in
      #testday so they can help reproduce it and provide more information.

Please send any feedback to testday@mozilla.org.
We are very interested to hear about how the test day went and welcome
suggestions on how to improve our events. Thanks for the support!

- The Mozilla QA Team

FAQ

1. Where do I start?

• Go to your favorite IRC
  client:
  • Windows
    clients
  • MacOS
    clients
  • Linux
    clients
  • ChatZilla
    (Firefox extension) - Note: If you are using
    ChatZilla you must also close ChatZilla for Firefox to fully restart.
    Workaround is to run a version of Mozilla Suite and use the built in
    Chatzilla program from there - that way you are always online when you
    have to restart.

• Connect to irc.mozilla.org
• Join the #testday channel or #bugday channel depending on the event

2. Ok, I am in the channel, now what?

• Let the moderators know if you have any questions or
  encounter any problems. If you are not familiar with our bugzilla bug
  tracking system, feel free to report your problems to a
  moderator and they can log any bugs for you.

3. What build should I test?

• Please download a Nightly Build from the Mozilla
  FTP Server .

4. Any tips for beginners?

• Yes! You should ALWAYS backup your profile
  if you are going to use it during testing. Or you can create a
  fresh/new profile. Here is some important
  information to help you protect you from losing your profile
  information:
• Backing up your profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup.
• Launching the profile manager: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager

5. Where do I find Litmus?

• Go to Litmus
  (http://litmus.mozilla.org)
• Log in and then select run
  tests
• You can do a smoketest or a Basic Functional Test, it is
  entirely up to you!
• Talk to a moderator if you need help.
• Please make sure to choose the correct platform when you
  start your run.

6. Who will be moderating the #testday channel?

There are a number of Mozilla QA team members in the channel that can
help.

7. How do I file bugs?

First, let one of the moderators
know so they can check if it is already a known problem. Then they can
guide you to either provide more details, update an
existing bug or file a new bug.
If filing a new bug, please do a quick check to see if the bug already
exists. This can easily be done by searching for the error message,
window name, or some over identifing feature of the bug.

8. How do I send feedback?

Please use the testday@mozilla.org
to send feedback about how the testday went, any overall thoughts about
the Testday, and roll up of issues found and bugs filed.
We really appreciate your help today and your feedback is very
valuable.

Testday
Results

When the testday is complete, you can go check out the results at the Litmus
Test Day Reports page.