1617862 - Add command line option to generate screenshots when running raptor tests

Status: NEW

(Testing :: Raptor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Florin Strugariu [:Bebe]]

Add screen_capture as a command line option so we can easily enable this feature on all tests
add this as:
mach raptor-test -t <test name> --screen_capture

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Note that this would help me a lot when investigating failures like those pageload timeouts. given that you set it to P2, are you planning to get this implemented soon?

Comment 2

[Florin Strugariu [:Bebe]]

not on my future task list... but for sure something we would like to have.
If you think it it's important we can assign it to someone soon

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

So I actually checked page load tests, and there we create a screenshot in case of a page load timeout. Florin, maybe you can clarify what exactly this command should do for this kind of test, and benchmarks?

Comment 4

[Florin Strugariu [:Bebe]]

This command line should replace the "screen_capture" we add in the config ini files to generate screenshots when we run the tests. with a raptor command line option.

executing:
mach raptor-test -t <test_name> --screen_capture

This should generate the screen_capture html file

Note: screen shout generation should be done at every cycle.

Going forward with this we can fallow the same strategy as "gecko profile" and add this as a fuzzy command line for raptor tests
Doing so we can have this as a available easy option to our try builds:

mach try fuzzy --screen_capture

Comment 5

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

Please can we use --screen-capture instead of --screen_capture