853250 - Need better way of invoking B2G tests

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

We don't have an easy way for developers to invoke B2G tests.  There are some scripts in test.sh, but they're quite limited, and not really flexible enough.  It would be better to have a mach-style shell for running them.  We discussed this some time ago, and there was pushback from porting mach to B2G for the build system, but maybe we can do so (or something similar) just for test running at this time.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Keep in mind mach is just a generic CLI driver. You just drop the Python package in the source tree, create a bootstrap script referencing all the .py files defining commands and you are good to go. comm-central installed their own mach bootstrap file that supplements m-c mach commands with their own. B2G could do the same. I encourage B2G to do the same. I know I would prefer to maintain Python over shell, especially considering many of the tools you are interfacing with are written in Python. It just works.

Comment 2

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> Keep in mind mach is just a generic CLI driver. You just drop the Python
> package in the source tree, create a bootstrap script referencing all the
> .py files defining commands and you are good to go. comm-central installed
> their own mach bootstrap file that supplements m-c mach commands with their
> own. B2G could do the same. I encourage B2G to do the same. I know I would
> prefer to maintain Python over shell, especially considering many of the
> tools you are interfacing with are written in Python. It just works.

Massive +1 to this. If we can at least start with tests people will become familiarized with it and there will be less push back if we decide to switch the build system over.