877864 - disable mozprocess test until they can get some love

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

We already have our one mozprocess test disabled on windows:
https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/blob/master/mozprocess/tests/manifest.ini#L5
Now there is another issue regarding these tests on at least OS X at
least intermittently: bug 877823 . These tests have always been
tempermental; while they have been consistently reliable in mine and
others' environments, they are environment sensitive, don't work on
clang (I think?), etc.  They have blocked deployment of bug 790765 and
have required more work towards that end than any other test.

In short, they should be disabled.  Once we have time to trouble shoot
and we are reliably running mozbase tests on e.g. `make check` despite
hostility towards corruption of this target, we can revisit this issue
and turn them back on.  It would be nice to have some of the issues
track by bug 778267 fixed, if not the entire thing rewritten in python
(to be filed).

Comment 1

[Jeff Hammel]

In the future, we may also want to keep the ability to run as developers vs in automation.  See bug 877885

Comment 2

[Jeff Hammel]

Attachment: disable this test

Comment 3

[Jeff Hammel]

this will, of course, have to be mirrored to m-c, conceivably with bug 790765

Comment 4

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Comment on attachment 756248 [details] [diff] [review]
disable this test

Review of attachment 756248 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Thanks Jeff.

Comment 5

[Jeff Hammel]

pushed: https://github.com/mozilla/mozbase/commit/0e621fbc77e94417d660512065485bd657004ddd

Added to bug 877733 to mirror -> m-c

Comment 6

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

This test is still disabled according to testing/mozbase/mozprocess/tests/manifest.ini.

There's not noticeable difference running the tests on clang vs. gcc for me.  The only subtest that fails is test_process_kill on test_mozprocess.py:282.