969524 - Cannot run individual tests that appear in multiple manifests

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: XPCShell Harness, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Bug 920849 failed to address my original problem, that there seems to be no way to run an individual test from the add-ons manager xpcshell tests because they are duplicated. Running mach xpcshell-test on the directory runs two of everything and running it for a single file runs it twice.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Bug 920849 provides the framework for implementing this. We just need to figure out and implement the UX.

How do we allow users to select a single test/configuration when multiple manifests/configurations are involved?

How about a new syntax for test discovery:

  mach xpcshell-test path/to/xpcshell.ini:test_foo.js

This allows you to specify the manifest and a test/file inside of it.

Will that satisfy your requirements? If you have other ideas, I'm all ears.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> Bug 920849 provides the framework for implementing this. We just need to
> figure out and implement the UX.
> 
> How do we allow users to select a single test/configuration when multiple
> manifests/configurations are involved?
> 
> How about a new syntax for test discovery:
> 
>   mach xpcshell-test path/to/xpcshell.ini:test_foo.js

The downside to this is that the ini is in the srcdir but I commonly run tests from the objdir. I don't have a better idea though so if that is what we have that's fine.

Comment 3

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown] (pto Apr 11-18)]

Mass closing bugs with no activity in 2+ years. If this bug is important to you, please re-open.