1499890 - Use marionette to load Addons for Android mochitests

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Testing, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Current Android mochitests use a different method (push to device profile, side-load) for installing addons (like special-powers) than that used for desktop mochitests (marionette).

We should be able to simplify/consolidate code if marionette is used everywhere.

The Android method is inherently racy -- see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494657#c31 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1451484#c29.


Are there similar issues for Android reftests?

Can we use marionette in geckoview apps like TestRunnerActivity?

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

(In reply to Geoff Brown [:gbrown] from comment #0)
> Can we use marionette in geckoview apps like TestRunnerActivity?

Not currently, but we are trying to get that working -- bug 1496773.

Chris Peterson recently asserted that Fenix will not be marionette-capable. So we should probably maintain the existing non-marionette support for the foreseeable future, but use marionette wherever we can.

Comment 2

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

There's a similar issue for robocop -- it would be nice to include robocop in any solution here (it should be natural and easy, since robocop uses the mochitest framework).

Comment 3

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