1080804 - Port remotereftest.py to use mozbase

Status: NEW

(Testing :: Reftest, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

When porting reftest to mozbase in bug 915865 I didn't fix remotereftest.py. wlach indicated that we don't have a mozrunner solution for Fennec currently. I believe he said that we should do something like write a "mini-runner" that we could use.

Comment 1

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

(In reply to Ted Mielczarek [:ted.mielczarek] from comment #0)
> When porting reftest to mozbase in bug 915865 I didn't fix remotereftest.py.
> wlach indicated that we don't have a mozrunner solution for Fennec
> currently. I believe he said that we should do something like write a
> "mini-runner" that we could use.

Yes, mozdevice provides a method called launchFennec which you can use to launch stuff, so you can just write up a mini runner class around that. See for example what I did in eideticker:

https://github.com/mozilla/eideticker/blob/master/src/eideticker/eideticker/runner.py#L180

The long term solution is of course to make mozrunner fennec-friendly, but that's probably more work and doing this will provide some quicker wins (and pave the way to doing that in the future).