551103 - Allow test-runs to set default preferences (prepare profile before first start)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

During our testday on Friday, Sid asked how to set default preferences for a couple of Mozmill tests. After checking the code we have found out that there is no way to do that at the moment. Preferences you set are always user preferences but not default preferences.

Sid mentioned that he will fix it in the shell script which invokes the Mozmill tests for Thunderbird. We can backport it to Mozmill itself later.

Please point us to the script so we know what we have to add/update.

Comment 1

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

I implemented it as part of bug 550589. Basically all one needs to do is to create a prefs.js file inside ProfD/preferences.

Comment 2

[Jeff Hammel]

Still an active bug?  What is the priority here?

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Still a must have for the future. Jeff, we already talked about it a couple of times.

Comment 4

[Jeff Hammel]

Is there anything that should be done here now that mozprofile doesn't already achieve?  Please be specific

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Jeff, is there example code we can look at, so that we can see what mozprofile is capable of at the moment? Without that it's kinda hard for me to answer your question because I'm not that familiar with the code like you.

Comment 6

[Jeff Hammel]

See https://github.com/mozautomation/mozmill/blob/master/mozprofile/README.md

There is various code in-tree, though looking at https://github.com/mozautomation/mozmill/blob/master/mozprofile/mozprofile/profile.py is probably just as easy to understand, or running

mozmill --help 

or 

mozprofile --help

Comment 7

[Jeff Hammel]

So I'm moving this to a mozmill bug.  ABICT, this is about mozmill test runs being able to set preferences.  I have no idea what this has to do with mozprofile.  If there is a feature that is requested, please ticket it and explain.  I didn't know what was being requested a year ago, and I don't know now.

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Since a while now there are command line options for specifying additional default values for preferences. So I think that this should be enough for this bug.

Also keep in mind that Mozmill will reach its end of life soon. We are currently working on getting all the tests for Firefox ported to Marionette. For status updates please see bug 1080766.