I'm also excited to see this up and running, as it will probably be
quite useful with testing webrender on android. Thank you!
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:40 PM Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> On 2018-11-01 3:06 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote:
> >> Like the existing "Android 4.2" and "Android 4.3" test platforms, these
> >> tests run in an Android emulator running in a docker container (the same
> >> Ubuntu-based image used for linux64 tests). The new platform runs an x86
> >> emulator using kvm acceleration, enabling tests to run much, much faster
> >> than on the older platforms. As a bonus, the new platform uses Android 7.0
> >> ("Nougat", API 24) - more modern, more relevant.
> >>
> > This is incredibly awesome news! For those not in the know, the reason
> > this is so noteworthy is that most cloud-based hosts don't expose KVM
> > acceleration, since it can be a sec concern. In particular, AWS doesn't
> > expose KVM to most (all?) instances. There's an awful lot of plumbing
> > required to get jobs running in different cloud hosts... but here we are.
>
> Our Android test coverage has been sparse in the past because slow ARM
> emulators and devices were a bottleneck. Being able to run Android tests
> on x86 at "desktop speed" means we can greatly improve our test coverage
> on Android!
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