Category Archives: mobile

Startup Crash indicator

For those that don’t look at Socorro too often, there’s a new icon that shows you if there’s a startup crash. The indicator is circled in red. Basically if a crash signature has an uptime of less than 1 minute … Continue reading

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Crash Reports other than Socorro

There are other crash reports other than Socorro that are being generated. Thanks to kairo and chofmann; there are other ways to look at the data that is provided by Socorro. Kairo has made an adjustment asked by the crashkill … Continue reading

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Personal opinions on QAing

To me, QA is about reporting what the current behavior of the application is, for better or worse.  This means reporting what works and what does not work. Overall testing means to check every button to make sure that the … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about mobile crashes a moment…

So there’s 4 types of crashes within the Fennec Native world right now. 1) Crashes that occur due to the Native UI which is caught by breakpad 2) Crashes that are caught by breakpad 3) Crashes that are caught by … Continue reading

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Mobile Newsletter – Week of February 3rd, 2012

Hello, Firefox Mobile testers! Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out!  Thanks for helping out; your input is greatly appreciated! What’s New in Fennec Native … Continue reading

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Exploratory testing crash course

Some people wonder how I find bugs.  It’s not just a matter of running a test case, but to test around the bug.  (I explained how to test around a bug in an earlier blog).  Thinking of each of these … Continue reading

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Crash course in videography… Mobile Video Shooting

So I ended up getting a crash course in videography.  I have to do this video shooting of mobile devices to get performance numbers.  Rainer was kind enough to take some time out to explain a lot of things to … Continue reading

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Changing up this in the Crash reporting…

After trying to see what is working and what is not working, I found that I still have to change up how I do things in crash reporting for mobile.  Based on what I am trying to figure out and … Continue reading

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Week of Jan 12nd 2012

Hello, Firefox Mobile testers! Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out! Thanks for helping out; your input is greatly appreciated! What’s New in Fennec Native … Continue reading

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Mobile Newsletter – Week of December 31st 2011

Happy New Year, Firefox Mobile testers! Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out! This Week’s Headlines! Happy New Year! Nightly has moved to Aurora Newsgroup … Continue reading

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