637464 - Need to write up documentation on MDC for avmdiff

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Chris Peyer]

There is no documentation for avmdiff at the moment.

Comment 1

[Chris Peyer]

Attachment: add avmdiff documentation to the redux doc dir

Once posted to redux, I'll add a direct link to it at MDC

Comment 2

[Dan Schaffer]

Comment on attachment 519238 [details] [diff] [review]
add avmdiff documentation to the redux doc dir

looks good, here are a few more details:
- when different output is found between configurations the most common output is considered the expected value. all of the differences are output.
- runtime errors are stripped in debugger builds so release and debugger output can otherwise match
- also stack traces are completed removed so debugger and release builds match
- lines starting with "metric:" are removed so performance tests may be tested
- also should keep in mind tests outputting current dates, times or random numbers should be considered non testable with avmdiff and should be excluded or skipped from avmdiff test runs

Comment 3

[Tamarin Bot]

changeset: 6197:2cab6b507947
user:      Chris Peyer <[e-mail]>
summary:   Bug 637464: Avmdiff documentation (r=dschaffe)

http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux/rev/2cab6b507947

Comment 4

[Chris Peyer]

Link to doc added to https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Tamarin/Tamarin_Acceptance_Testing