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  • ad hock testing of daily and milestone builds
    • using the application for work and play. 
    • 2500 downloads a day and 100-300 bugs reported a day
  • smoke testing of daily builds
    • www.mozilla.org/quality/smoke tests
    • validate the previous day's check ins and make sure that the top level functionality has not regressed which would prevent further development or testing (ad-hock or fuctional)
    • failures in these tests put a halt to further check ins until a fix for the failure is checked in and tested