778204 - let marionette test framework reuse existing emulator for emulator tests

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

There isn't a way for marionette to use an already running emulator for the tests that require qemu control (for example, the battery tests). Instead, marionette boots up its own emulator and uses that. It would be a "nice to have" to get an already running emulator working with the test runner.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

So, if you have an emulator already running, and want to run Marionette tests using that, you can use:

python runtests.py --emulator arm --address localhost:2828 --homedir .....

That is, specifying both "emulator" and "address" allows you to do this.  This is granted not at all intuitive, we should add a more explicit option for this.

Comment 2

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

Verified (with latest emulator-arm_linux) that as Jonathan noted above, specifying both the 'emulator' and 'address' options does allow the WebAPI test to run in a pre-running emulator.

Comment 3

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

Attachment: Update documentation

Added some additional information to the --emulator help message so that users know how to use it

Comment 4

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Comment on attachment 648008 [details] [diff] [review]
Update documentation

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

pushed to inbound

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/2f36e642ef8d

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2f36e642ef8d