917223 - [Marionette JS Test] support including some header.js in test case

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 805838

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Szu-Yu Chen [:aknow] (inactive)]

When developing marionette webapi tests, I found that some of the test_file may share a set of duplicate code. Is it possible to extract them into a header.js so that we could include it in each test case.

Ex: telephony related test cases.
We may have many scenarios.
(1) dial a call => answer => hangup
(2) dial a call => answer => hold => resume => hangup
...

We would like to keep the different scenarios in different files. However, even they share some basic building block (dial / answer, hold, resume, reject, hangup), we still have to repeat those code in every files.

For xpcshelltest, we have the feature of head and tail to apply some operations before and after the test script.

After some study, it seems that the same feature is not on marionette test. But I found in the code, it will prepend head.js for 'browser_'. So, could we also extend this feature to other 'test_*.js' case.

We could introduce a special label like the following in the test script to enable the including.

  MARIONETTE_JS_HEADER = head.js

I am not sure which mailing list should I go for the discussion. So I raise a bug here.

Comment 1

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 805838

Comment 2

[Szu-Yu Chen [:aknow] (inactive)]

Yes, it's a duplicate.