572424 - Allow restart tests to manipulate order of executed tests

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 604367

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

In the current state we have situations where we need multiple restarts of the browser but we can't predict how many that will be. As example you can take the software update tests. Right now we are only able to apply one single update, but if we have situations like for 3.6.4 build 7 it can happen that multiple updates are in the queue. That said the tests should be able to tell Mozmill that a specific restart test should called again after the next restart. It's something like a state machine. We are able to do such things for normal tests but with restart tests we are really limited. It's a static order of tests which get executed.

We could use the persisted object and a specific member to control the command line side of Mozmill which test has to be executed next within a folder. Mozmill should jump to that test and execute successive tests as they appear in the normal order.