Cases for HackDay with Parth - September 8th

[kjozwiak]

Desktop Cases

• Test #1: Confirm Brave Rewards is using the staging environment

Reference: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases

• Launch Brave Nightly using the terminal/command line with these switches:
  • if using macOS: /Applications/Brave\ Browser\ Nightly.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave\ Browser\ Nightly --enable-logging=stderr --vmodule="*/bat-native-ledger/*"=6,"*/brave_rewards/*"=6,"*/bat-native-ads/*"=6,"*/bat-native-confirmations/*"=6,"*/brave_ads/*"=9,"*/brave_user_model/*"=6 --brave-ads-staging --brave-ads-debug --rewards=staging=true
  • if using Windows: brave.exe --enable-logging=stderr --vmodule=""*/variations/*"=6,"*/bat-native-ledger/*"=6,"*/brave_rewards/*"=6,"*/bat-native-ads/*"=6,"*/brave_ads/*"=9" --brave-ads-staging --brave-ads-debug --rewards=staging=true
  • if using Linux: brave-browser-nightly --enable-logging=stderr --vmodule="*/bat-native-ledger/*"=6,"*/brave_rewards/*"=6,"*/bat-native-ads/*"=6,"*/bat-native-confirmations/*"=6,"*/brave_ads/*"=9,"*/brave_user_model/*"=6 --brave-ads-staging --brave-ads-debug --rewards=staging=true
• Navigate to brave://rewards and enable Brave Rewards
• If you're able to find this URL https://rewards-stg.bravesoftware.com/publishers/prefix-list in the logs, that means that the staging environment is being used and the test passes.

• Test #2: Verify you are able to sync open tabs between desktop and mobile

• Create a new sync chain on Desktop by visiting brave://settings/braveSync/setup
• On Mobile create a sync chain using the QR code from desktop
• Ensure both devices are listed on each device under devices list
• On Desktop, open a new tab and visit https://buzzfeed.com
• Right click on the tab and select Send to your devices and select mobile device
• Verify on mobile you receive a notification about the page. Clicking it should open https://buzzfeed.com in a new tab

Android Cases

• Test #1 - Disabling background images doesn’t show 8 top sites - Reference Issue

You can download the latest versions of Brave via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases

• Install the latest nightly version of Brave
• Disable background images on NTP via Settings
• Find out why you only see 4 favourites/top tiles instead of 8

• Test #2 - IPFS Gateways with Origin isolation - Reference Issue

You can download the latest versions of Brave via https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases

• Install the latest nightly version of Brave or use an existing install from previous test
• Change IPFS public gateway to use https://dweb.link/
• Verify no error is shown
• Change IPFS public gateway to use http://127.0.0.1:48081
• Verify error is shown

Cases if there's still time left

Following are a few cases that we can run through if we finish going through the above and we still have some time available:

• Ephemeral storage

• Run through https://dev-pages.bravesoftware.com/storage/ephemeral-storage.html on Android and follow website directions

• brave://settings/ page is empty in Guest window - Reference Issue

• Download, install, and open 1.30.36 Nightly build using https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases
• Open a Guest window
• Navigate to brave://settings
• Settings page is empty
• Update to latest Nightly version
• Repeat steps 2 and 3
• Confirm settings page is no longer empty