[Toaster] Reference browser for testing purposes

[Yuan Sun]

Hi all,
     From a tester's views, I choose Ubuntu 12.04 as a test host. Firefox 11.0 
is a default web browser in Ubuntu 12.04. Ubuntu 12.04 is a long-term support 
release. It has continuous hardware support improvements as well as guaranteed 
security and support updates until April 2017. However, Ubuntu 13.10(the latest 
version) will be supported for *ONLY* 9 months. So I think that Ubuntu 12.04 is 
a popular version and so many users would use it. Choose it as a test 
environment would covers a  great percentage of users.
     Maybe we can create a recommendation list of web-browser for customers so 
that it can lead to good user experience.
     Thanks.
                 Yuan

On 14-03-20 02:14 AM, Damian, Alexandru wrote:
>
> Our goal is not "decent" but complete HTML5 compatibility.
>
> The target is that our HTML output is to be validated by HTML5 validators with 
> no errors shown. We already selected the industry-standard HTML5 validators to 
> verify this.
> Specifically, we are using in development http://validator.w3.org/ through a 
> browser extension. This MUST be automated at a certain point.
>
> What I'm trying to avoid here is coding specifically for a target browser or 
> platform. I suggest to not restrict testing to a certain 
> browser/platform/version, but use what ever the tester uses in real life.
> In case of presentation bugs are discovered, first we have to rule out an 
> issue with the browser of choice by testing visual reproducibility with 
> another browser on the same page and verifying browser's HTML5 compatibility.
>
> For visual reference, widgets in the page change across different platforms 
> and browsers. Do we have test cases for the appearance ?
>
> The test cases should not be dependent or executed with a specified 
> platform/browser version.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Barros Pena, Belen 
> <belen.barros.pena at intel.com <mailto:belen.barros.pena at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     We should probably have raised this question earlier and had a plan in
>     place, but hey, better late ... The question is: which browsers should we
>     be using as a reference for QA purposes? Our guideline here is decent
>     HTML5 compatibility, but we never qualified what 'decent' means.
>
>     The other reference we could use is traffic to the Yocto Project website.
>     Visits are mainly coming from Chrome 32 and 33 on Windows, and Firefox 26
>     and 27 on Linux. I can put together more detailed numbers if anybody wants
>     to see them.
>
>     Those might be a bit too cutting edge, but could guide our decision
>     somehow. QA is currently testing with Firefox 11: that is probably too
>     old.
>
>     In light of the above, any suggestions about which browsers we should use
>     for testing?
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Belén
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Alex Damian
> Yocto Project
> SSG / OTC

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