Manual test run on Windows x64 for 1.15.x - Beta

[kjozwiak]

Per release specialty tests

• [Desktop] Payment server url handling.(#11284)
• [Desktop] Uphold server url handling.(#11286)
• [Desktop] Favicon caching.(#11506)
• [Desktop] Remove Chromium cookie flyouts.(#11709)
• Hide "Passwords" entry in the "Safety check" section of the Settings UI.(#11741)
• Upgrade from Chromium 86.0.4240.30 to Chromium 86.0.4240.42.(#11747)

Installer

• Check signature: If OS Run spctl --assess --verbose /Applications/Brave-Browser-Beta.app/ and make sure it returns accepted. If Windows right click on the brave_installer-x64.exe and go to Properties, go to the Digital Signatures tab and double click on the signature. Make sure it says "The digital signature is OK" in the popup window

Widevine

• Verify Widevine Notification is shown when you visit Netflix for the first time
• Test that you can stream on Netflix on a fresh profile after installing Widevine

Rewards

• Verify account balance shows correct BAT and USD value
• Verify you are able to restore a wallet
• Verify actions taken (claiming grant, tipping, auto-contribute) display in wallet panel
• Verify when you click on the BR panel while on a site, the panel displays site specific information (site favicon, domain, attention %)
• Verify you are able to make one-time tip and they display in tips panel
• Verify you are able to make recurring tip and they display in tips panel
• Verify you can tip a verified publisher
• Verify you can tip a verified YouTube creator
• Verify you are able to perform a contribution
• Verify if you disable auto-contribute you are still able to tip regular sites and YouTube creators

Update tests

• Verify visiting brave://settings/help triggers update check
• Verify once update is downloaded, prompts to Relaunch to install update

Components

• Delete Adblock folder from browser profile and restart browser. Visit brave://components and verify Brave Ad Block Updater downloads and update the component. Repeat for all Brave components

Upgrade

• Make sure that data from the last version appears in the new version OK
• Ensure that brave://version lists the expected Brave & Chromium versions
• With data from the last version, verify that
  • Bookmarks on the bookmark toolbar and bookmark folders can be opened
  • Cookies are preserved
  • Installed extensions are retained and work correctly
  • Opened tabs can be reloaded
  • Stored passwords are preserved
  • Sync chain created in previous version is retained
  • Social media blocking buttons changes are retained
  • Rewards
    • Wallet balance is retained
    • Auto-contribute list is retained
    • Both Tips and Monthly Contributions are retained
    • Wallet panel transactions list is retained
    • Changes to rewards settings are retained
  • Ads
    • Both Estimated pending rewards & Ad notifications received this month are retained
    • Changes to ads settings are retained
    • Ensure that ads are not being enabled when upgrading to a new version if they were disabled
    • Ensure that ads are not disabled when upgrading to a new version if they were enabled

[kjozwiak]

Windows will be running through a reduced test plan as we've already ran through a full pass on Nightly when C86 landed as per #11729.

Please wait till C86 gets merged into 1.15.x via brave/brave-core#6677 & #11800 before running through the above test run 👍

[kjozwiak]

Verified the above cases on Win 10 x64 using the following build:

Brave | 1.15.65 Chromium: 86.0.4240.55 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
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Revision | a6d625ef6f7fe8ea0675f1cf759155a05ee1be40-refs/branch-heads/4240@{#953}
OS | Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19041.508)