Also sprach Dan Mosedale:
2017-06-16 6:22 GMT-07:00 Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>:
On 06/15/2017 04:37 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
Would it be feasible to use headless mode for mochitests (or
reftests, etc. etc.)?
Running the tests that we rely on for correctness on an environment
that looks this different than the environment that our users run
sounds like a bad thing to do. What would be the advantage of doing
so?
it would likely be much faster, allowing folks to get a substantially
tighter feedback loop of developing and running a set of tests. My
expectation, based on previous experience in the web-development
world, is that people would run tests more often during the
development cycle, which would catch other errors more quickly during
development, making development more efficient.
Linux developers are spoilt with xvfb-run(1), and I probably run
(primarily Marionette) tests more frequently as a result of the window
not stealing focus. There is also a slight performance gain, which is
nice.
Headless Firefox bringing this experience to all platforms is a good
point.
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