360294 - XR (XULRunner) testing infrastructure

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect, P2)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

We need a xul runner testing infrastructure.  It should support logging similar to that of mochitest.

Ideally, there should be an example XR app that someone can simply copy and add their own test logic.

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Note bug 359830.

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Do we want people to copy the whole app for their test, or just write case snippets in some format?  What sorts of things need to be tested that are XR-specific?

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

In dougt's case the test is not XR-specific, but we need to be able to run the test on some other account or machine than the build machine, and XR provides a fairly straightforward way to do that.

What sort of logging are you looking for in particular?

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

as far as logging, i would like this to be able to plug into any existing reporting stuff we might already have in place.

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This should be doable using Firefox now that bug 388833 has landed (modulo any bugs in the implementation).

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.