958710 - Install Flash for Robocop tests

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task, P3)

Description

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

I'm writing some Flash tests to be run with robocop. We'll need to have the Flash plugin installed for this to work.

The test is only going to work on 4.0+ right now due to the way Flash is painted to the screen, so we only need it for the pandaboards.

The latest Flash for ICS is here: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/android/11.1.115.81/install_flash_player_ics.apk

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

I discussed this with Callek briefly. This seems important, but we're going to want to take the time to try this a couple of different ways to get a feeling for the trade-offs:

1) Add Flash to the base panda image to avoid incurring the end-to-end time overhead of installing for each test run. This could affect other tests though, so we'll need to test everything.

2) Install Flash per test run. While safer, we're weary of *only* trying this approach until we can judge how much overhead the install/uninstall process will incur. We rarely get to remove things from the test docket once added, so avoiding unneeded overhead is crucial.

Comment 2

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

We have a Flash test ready to go, so just need this done in order to check it in.

Comment 3

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

I installed http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/android/11.1.115.81/install_flash_player_ics.apk on top of http://people.mozilla.org/~gbrown/panda/panda_16gb_v3.2.img.bz2 -- the image being considered for deployment in bug 956729 (it has sutagent 1.20); the result is at:

http://people.mozilla.org/~gbrown/panda/panda_16gb_v3.3.img.bz2

This definitely needs independent testing prior to deployment.

Comment 4

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

I'm imaging my panda with this right now, will make sure the test I wrote works there.

Comment 5

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Image works fine for me and my test passes, so I'm happy.

Comment 6

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Jake can you also add the image in c#3 [v3.3] to mozpool please

Comment 7

[Jake Watkins [:dividehex]]

The artifacts have been created and pushed to mozpool.  The new image name is panda-android-4.0.4_v3.3

Comment 8

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

this was pushed live on wednesday!