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Do you care about Web standards? Do you hate working around browser bugs? Don't just stand there - with engineers bleeding by the side of the road, are you going to be the Pharisee or the Good Samaritan?
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You can help, and you don't need to be a C++ programmer! Simplifying bug reports to the simplest possible test case doesn't take too long per bug, but when you've got as many bugs as we do, the time really adds up. And every hour Gecko engineers spend decomposing bug reports is an hour they can't spend on FIXING bugs. The more bugs that are simplified, the faster Gecko engineers can fix them, and the fewer bugs there'll be!
Writing a testcase is also the best and most productive way to vote for a bug. Overworked engineers tend to focus on bugs with testcases. If a bug bothers you, why it does still not have a testcase?
What Is A Test Case?
A simplified test case means the simplest possible Web page that still reproduces the bug. If you remove any more characters from the file of the simplified test case, you no longer see the bug. You can find out how to make them at Reducing_testcases.
Finding The Bugs
Bugs which definitely need a testcase are flagged with the testcase-wanted keyword (search). If there are none of those, then try working your way through one of the following components:
Procedure
Find a bug, create a reduced testcase and attach it to the bug. When you've done that, remove the testcase-wanted keyword (if present), add a testcase keyword, and move on to the next bug. If you don't have sufficient Bugzilla permissions to add keywords or attachments, mail Gerv to obtain additional permissions.
Rewards
This is the good bit. Each time you make a testcase, bookmark the bug. When you've got to 15, email the list to Martijn in order to receive, with our thanks, a cute stuffed Firefox!
Page last modified 17:30, 20 Sep 2008 by Gerv