On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Nathan Froyd <nfr...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Brendan Dahl <bd...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > Headless will run less of the platform specific widget code and I don't
> > recommend using it for platform specific testing. It is targeted more at
> > web developers and testing regular content pages. There definitely will
> be
> > cases where regular pages will need to exercise code that would vary per
> > platform (such as fullscreen), but hopefully we can provide good enough
> > emulation in headless and work to have a consistent enough behavior
> across
> > platforms that it won't matter.
>
> Would it be feasible to use headless mode for mochitests (or reftests,
> etc. etc.)?  I know there are probably some mochitests which care
> about the cases you mention above (e.g. fullscreen), but if that could
> be taken care of in the headless code itself or we could annotate the
> tests somehow, it would be a huge boon for running mochitests locally,
> or even in parallel.  (We already have some support for running
> reftests/crashtests in parallel.)
>

There are some tests which fail if the "screen" is not a particular size.
Those might be a problem as well.
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