🚀 v7.58.0 Testing & Release Quality Process

Hi Team,
As part of our new MetaMask Release Quality Process, here’s a quick overview of the key processes, testing strategies, and milestones to ensure a smooth and high-quality deployment.

📋 Key Processes

Testing Strategy

• Developer Teams:
  Conduct regression and exploratory testing for your functional areas, including automated and manual tests for critical workflows.
• QA Team:
  Focus on exploratory testing across the wallet, prioritize high-impact areas, and triage any Sentry errors found during testing.
• Customer Success Team:
  Validate new functionalities and provide feedback to support release monitoring.

GitHub Signoff

• Each team must sign off on the Release Candidate (RC) via GitHub by the end of the validation timeline (Tuesday EOD PT).
• Ensure all tests outlined in the Testing Plan are executed, and any identified issues are addressed.

Issue Resolution

• Resolve all Release Blockers (Sev0 and Sev1) by Tuesday EOD PT.
• For unresolved blockers, PRs may be reverted, or feature flags disabled to maintain release quality and timelines.

Cherry-Picking Criteria

• Only critical fixes meeting outlined criteria will be cherry-picked.
• Developers must ensure these fixes are thoroughly reviewed, tested, and merged by Tuesday EOD PT.

🗓️ Timeline and Milestones

1. Today (Friday): Begin Release Candidate validation.
2. Tuesday EOD PT: Finalize RC with all fixes and cherry-picks.
3. Wednesday: Buffer day for final checks.
4. Thursday: Submit release to app stores and begin rollout to 1% of users.
5. Monday: Scale deployment to 10%.
6. Tuesday: Full rollout to 100%.

✅ Signoff Checklist

Each team is responsible for signing off via GitHub. Use the checkbox below to track signoff completion:

Team sign-off checklist

• Mobile Platform
• Perps
• Earn
• Wallet Integrations
• Rewards
• Core Platform
• Ramp
• Accounts Framework
• Confirmations
• Extension Platform
• Swaps and Bridge
• Assets
• Design System
• New Networks
• Web3Auth
• Mobile UX
• Predict
• Network Enablement
• Transactions
• Card

This process is a major step forward in ensuring release stability and quality. Let’s stay aligned and make this release a success! 🚀

Feel free to reach out if you have questions or need clarification.

Many thanks in advance

Reference

• Testing plan sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tsoodlAlyvEUpkkcNcbZ4PM9HuC9cEM80RZeoVv5OCQ/edit?gid=404070372#gid=404070372