Mozilla Calendar Project Blog Its about time for some news…

The next test day will be held on Thursday, January 29th. After some code consolidation in the user interface (navigation bar and calendar views) and the introduction of a new preference driven calendar registration, we suggest that you try Litmus test cases and some ad-hoc testing to find regressions in any part of Sunbird or Lightning 1.0pre.

How to test the new preference driven calendar registration:

This can be done by updating older profiles from versions 0.5, 0.7 or 0.9. After an update with the latest 1.0pre build all the old calendar preferences (name, color, read-only state, …) should be the same as before. The calendar registration should also be checked with different providers (local calendars, CalDAV, Google, WCAP).

Please backup your profiles before testing as described on the Test Day wiki page.

There are also some fixed tb-integration bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Calendar QA Team

The next test day will be held on Thursday, December 4th. This time we want to take a look at Sunbird and Lightning 1.0pre builds in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

• Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a “test” profile.
• Backing up a profile is easy:
1. Find your profile directory: Windows: %AppData%Thunderbird, Linux: ~/.thunderbird, MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
• Creating a testing profile is also easy:
1. Launch your application with a ‘-P’ option from a terminal prompt.
2. Create a new profile by clicking the ‘Create Profile’ button.
3. Click ‘Next’, Give it a name like “Testing Profile”, click ‘Finish’.
4. Select the testing profile, and click the ‘Start Shredder’ button.
• Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
• Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

The goal of our test day is to run as many Litmus test cases for Sunbird and Lightning as possible. If you find outdated or broken test cases, please leave a comment.

There are also some fixed tb-integration bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

The next test day will be held on Thursday, November 13th. We want to put email-based scheduling (iTIP/iMIP support) to the acid test on our testday. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

• Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a “test” profile.
• Backing up a profile is easy:
  1. Find your profile directory:
     Windows: %AppData%Thunderbird
     Linux: ~/.thunderbird
     MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
  2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
• Creating a testing profile is also easy:
  1. Launch your application with a ‘-P’ option.
  2. Create a new profile by clicking the ‘Create Profile’ button.
  3. Click ‘Next’, Give it a name like “Testing Profile”, click ‘Finish’.
  4. Select the testing profile, and click the ‘Start Shredder’ button.
• Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
• Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

There are also some fixed tb-integration bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

The outcome of our last testday: 39 tests run and 11 marked ‘failed’. Many thanks go to karora, whose comments in the failed test cases let us file two new bug reports.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas
Calendar QA Team

The next test day will be held on Thursday, October 30th. This time we want to take a look at the Lightning trunk builds in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre again. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

• Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a “test” profile.
• Backing up a profile is easy:
  1. Find your profile directory:
     Windows: %AppData%Thunderbird
     Linux: ~/.thunderbird
     MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
  2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
• Creating a testing profile is also easy:
  1. Launch your application with a ‘-P’ option.
  2. Create a new profile by clicking the ‘Create Profile’ button.
  3. Click ‘Next’, Give it a name like “Testing Profile”, click ‘Finish’.
  4. Select the testing profile, and click the ‘Start Shredder’ button.
• Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
• Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

The goal of our test day is to run as many Litmus test cases for Lightning as possible. If you find outdated or broken test cases, please leave a comment.

There are also some fixed tb-integration bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas
Calendar QA Team

The next test day will be held on Thursday, October 16th. This time we want to take a look at the Lightning trunk builds in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

• Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a “test” profile.
• Backing up a profile is easy:
  1. Find your profile directory:
     Windows: %AppData%Thunderbird
     Linux: ~/.thunderbird
     MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
  2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
• Creating a testing profile is also easy:
  1. Launch your application with a ‘-P’ option.
  2. Create a new profile by clicking the ‘Create Profile’ button.
  3. Click ‘Next’, Give it a name like “Testing Profile”, click ‘Finish’.
  4. Select the testing profile, and click the ‘Start Shredder’ button.
• Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
• Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

The goal of our test day is to run as many Litmus test cases for Lightning as possible. If you find outdated or broken test cases, please leave a comment.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas & Martin
Calendar QA Team

Our next testday will be on Monday, September 15th, and we will concentrate on the first release candidate of Lightning and Sunbird 0.9, which you can get here:

• Lightning 0.9 RC1:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Solaris (Intel)
  • Solaris (SPARC)
• Sunbird 0.9 RC1:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Solaris (Intel)
  • Solaris (SPARC)

We need your help to complete the remaining localization (L10N) checks, and the update testing, as you can see from the test plan.

The participation in the last Sunbird localization testday wasn’t so good. Maybe it is helpful to clarify what L10N testing means. It is not really necessary to understand the tested language because the main focus of this testing is to find untranslated strings (still the English wording), garbled characters (language specific letters, e.g. ‘ü’ or ‘ä’), and messages in the error console at startup (often caused by mistranslated timezone strings). Please, take a look at some of the bugs filed on the last testday, which are good samples: bug 449646 and bug 450618.

Localization testing in Sunbird is easy. After downloading and unzipping the translated Sunbird build start the application with a new profile, and you get the correct locale. In Lightning you should also use a new profile, but you have to start Thunderbird with the parameter ‘-UILocale’, e.g. ‘-UILocale fr’ or ‘-UILocale pt-BR’. So you get a French or Portuguese (Brazil) Lightning – independent from your Thunderbird locale. The RC1 build is multilingual and contains all shipped locales.

In earlier releases we found critical bugs in the update test scenario, and so this is the second major topic of the testday. Especially this time it is worth to check the timezone functionality after the update, because in 0.9 the timezone database is a separate add-on. You can also find a matrix with the update paths at our test plan. If you have anything to add, feel free to do so.

As usual there are also some fixed bugs that need to be verified. You simply add a comment to the bug report stating what product, version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in #calendar-qa on Monday. All the information on the test day is on our usual Test Day Wiki Page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas & Martin
Calendar QA Team

The next test day will be held tomorrow, August 28th. In the light of Bruno’s developer note, we decided that the main focus of this test day will be CalDAV. So, if you use a CalDAV calendar server, try with a recent nightly build of Sunbird or Lightning. But please backup your profile beforehand!

Please take a look at the CalDAV support matrix. This page overviews CalDAV servers supported by Sunbird and Lightning, and contains some additional information, e.g. where to download the server or how to configure a calendar client to exchange data with the server. If you have anything to add, feel free to do so.

There are also many fixed bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what product, version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas & Martin
Calendar QA Team

The next test day will be held on Thursday, August 14th. This time we want to take a look at all localized Sunbird builds. Currently there are 33 languages available, and testing all of them is a huge amount of work. You can find the localized builds at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8-l10n/. The goal of our test day is to run as many Localization Litmus test cases as possible. Your feedback by editing the Test Plan for 0.9 is appreciated.

There are also many fixed bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what product, version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas & Martin
Calendar QA Team

After a short discussion at the QA chat last week, we decided that the next test day will be held on Thursday, July 24th. The main focus of this test day will be the Today Pane functionality (Berend added some minor features in bug 429687). We will also take a look at the new calendar view navigation (bug 444292), and try to find regressions.

There are also many fixed bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what product, version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas
Calendar QA Team

Daniel landed some highly demanded iTIP/iMIP features today, and we want to put email-based scheduling (iTIP/iMIP support) to the acid test on our testday, tomorrow, Thursday, July 17th.

The landed patch allows the user to select an Email Identity for a calendar, which in turn is useful for accepting invitations so that the application can determine which identity to use when sending a reply. Also, calendar providers were given more control of how invitations are handled.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel tomorrow. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

mschroeder
Calendar QA Team