648651 - Add bullet proof armor to the jstestnet browser worker in Selenium VM

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Code Quality, defect)

Description

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

There is currently a Firefox 3.6 browser worker that runs on the Selenium VM and waits to run tests.

The browser opens this URL http://jstestnet.farmdev.com/work/ and as long as that URL is open (for Ajax pings) then it is an active worker.

We need some scripts to do the following:
- launch a browser and open this URL from the command line (not VNC, like currently)
- re-open this URL in case the browser dies for any reason (nagios maybe?)
- ensure that this URL opens in case the Selenium machine restarts (init.d)

For background, the AMO js tests run from Hudson here: https://hudson.mozilla.org/job/amo-master-js/

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There is currently a Firefox 3.6 browser worker that runs on the Selenium VM
> and waits to run tests.
> 
> The browser opens this URL http://jstestnet.farmdev.com/work/ and as long as
> that URL is open (for Ajax pings) then it is an active worker.
> 
> We need some scripts to do the following:
> - launch a browser and open this URL from the command line (not VNC, like
> currently)
> - re-open this URL in case the browser dies for any reason (nagios maybe?)
> - ensure that this URL opens in case the Selenium machine restarts (init.d)
> 
> For background, the AMO js tests run from Hudson here:
> https://hudson.mozilla.org/job/amo-master-js/

I wrote a script that should handle #1 and #3.  I didn't add #2 because it's a different kind of problem (scripting wise) and I don't want to use time on it unless it becomes a problem.

So, -> fixed.  If #2 becomes an issue, I'll fix that sometime too.

Comment 2

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Awesome!  I agree that we should only add a monitor (#2) if it becomes necessary.

FYI, the server this is hosted on is down temporarily, should be fixed soon.

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

My script just makes sure Fx is running, not that the page isn't an error.  Let me know when it's back and I'll make sure firefox isn't staring at a "Server can't be found" error.