697894 - make target to run all the tests

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I'd like support for a make target, available in every directory via rules.mk or similar inheritance, which automagically runs *all* the tests (C++, xpcshell, mochitest, etc).

:biesi said `make check` used to do this, but it broke a while ago.

If something is available already, https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_automated_testing should probably be updated to say how to invoke it.

Expected behavior:

  `make -C any/path/in/obj/dir tests` just works.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

"make check" never used to do this. It used to run the check:: targets, which ran compiled C++ tests, as well as xpcshell tests. It never ran mochitest/reftest/etc. Those would be a little trickier to handle, since the Makefiles don't actually know about them, but we could probably sort something out.

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Having explicit variable(s) to define test directories will help here.