Firefox bug

I'm going to make this post very quick so here is a link to the bug I filed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1160256

FirefoxOS Design

I was reading the FirefoxOS in action tutorial today and I added some code to the note app provided by the book but it had an error(although it was a simple error that I fixed) so I just stopped reading it.

I started reading articles on the app center on the mozilla developer website

• When making an app there are some pretty obvious things everyone should do but is important anyway but these steps can be modified depending on your preference
• When thinking of an idea for an app and you have decided you should state the purpose of the app and who would use it. Also consider if it will be on different platforms
• Draw what the app will look like, probably a sketch for each screen and more if the app will be on multiple platforms
• Also if your app is on different platforms it may have different features on each platform, a mobile app will sometimes have less features than a desktop site because of the lack of space(google docs is a word processor with a lot of functions but the mobile app only allows you to view your documents and not edit them which is annoying in my opinion)

This tutorial looks really good so far and I looked at the example geolocation app on my laptop but I haven't seen what it looks like on the Flame.

FirefoxOS and Naming bug

Over the weekend Fredy emailed me saying he fixed the testcases I invalidated and he doesn't have any assignment for me right now but he will email me on Monday(which he never did and I hope he didn't forget). I did a bit more reading today and I wrote a few notes below.

• As I mentioned in a previous blogpost, the "certified" permission has permissions that can be abused(making purchases) but this permission level is not available on workplace apps and is a part of the OS
• The note app that I currently have allows a contact to be selected but it doesn't actually add that person to the note like it's supposed to so that needs to be fixed

I also wrote to Fredy about a bug but it was kind of annoying to explain so I just want him to confirm that it is a bug that hasn't been filed yet if he can.

FirefoxOS stuff

Today I finished up the last few testcases and I emailed a few questions for Fredy. One of the testcases referenced an "Active" tab which was removed recently so I invalidated that. As for your app, it worked fine on my simulator and you actually don't need contacts for it to work and you can just pull the changes from Finn, I think.

Testcases

I actually went to moztrap and noticed there was another page of testcases which must have been added recently so I went through those today. When going through them I checked for bugs or invalid instructions. I'm not really sure if I should invalidate some stuff but I think as long as the instructions are understandable I don't need to. I make sure to invalidate a testcase if the UI is different but for example one testcase says "Press continuously "Power" button" when it should probably say to "Hold down the "Power" button continuously". I also need to make a note to myself to look at testcase 26 because there was a problem with upvoting, I think.

I think I may have found a bug though because when you delete your name it gets replaced with a randomly generated one with the word Buddy and a number with it(like Buddy3478) but when you delete your name and it gets randomly generated again there is a lowercase "b". I'll have to check in with Fredy about this stuff though.

Testcases(11-20)

I don't really have anything interesting to blog about because I just went over the rest of the testcases. I don't think I missed anything and I tried to use my best judgement. There was one prerequisite that I think was wrong but I didn't report it although maybe I should have(testcase 13). Besides that I didn't really find any problems and I went through the testcases pretty thoroughly so I'll probably email Fredy soon and see if he needs anything else done right now.

More testcases(1-10)

So my new task is to go back through the testcases and invalidate any testcases if required because all the testcases were changed to be clearer and the UI of BuddyUp keeps changing.

One thing I noticed with the testcases so far was that one page is referred to as the "Homepage" when it says "Support" at the top but I think it's fine. I did invalidate a different test that referenced a nonexistent tab so the UI must have changed very recently. Testcase 9 and 10 are really long but I think both were fine so I only found a problem with one.