613804 - Provide an easy to use method for running mozmill tests

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 568642

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, defect)

Description

[(no longer active)]

If we expect developers to care about the Mozmill suite, we should provide them with an easy way to run the tests.  Here's my proposal:

Given the assumption that objdir is your object directory built with --enable-tests, this should be all you need to run the suite:

make -C /path/to/objdir mozmill

And this should also work for running a single test:

make -C /path/to/objdir mozmill TEST_PATH=path/to/test.js

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

IMO this blocks actually caring about mozmill failures on m-c.

Comment 3

[Jeff Hammel]

I have a basic patch up at:

http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/mozilla-central-patches/file/tip/bug-568642

It doesn't do mozmill-restart test nor does it do the TEST_PATH logic, but its not a horrible first stab.

This doesn't quite work, however, because automation-build.mk, included to find the path to the binary on all OSes, quotes the path to the binary: 

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/automation-build.mk#10

I'll file a subsequent bug involving separating out the binary-finding logic from the rest of the script