Re: firefox-ui-tests are now in mozilla-central with TaskCluster support

2016-03-02 Thread Henrik Skupin
Matthew N. wrote on 03/01/2016 06:18 PM: > Could you give an overview of what is tested by this suite and how it > differs from mochitest-browser-chrome? It seems one difference is that > some(?) tests run on non-en-US. So Andrew already told a lot, and just to emphasize here we really do not w

Re: firefox-ui-tests are now in mozilla-central with TaskCluster support

2016-03-01 Thread Andrew Halberstadt
They're more like end-to-end tests than browser-chrome. E.g instead of calling Gecko APIs, they'll send a mouse event to a button, send key events to a textbox, etc. So they'll theoretically perform actions closer to what a user might do. Since they're written in python, they can also do things l

Re: firefox-ui-tests are now in mozilla-central with TaskCluster support

2016-03-01 Thread Matthew N.
CC: firefox-dev On 2016-03-01 5:17 AM, Henrik Skupin wrote: Over the last years the formerly known Mozmill tests and now Firefox ui tests have been located in their own repository. That meant that we always got regressions due to changes developers have been made in Firefox. Hunting down those r

firefox-ui-tests are now in mozilla-central with TaskCluster support

2016-03-01 Thread Henrik Skupin
Over the last years the formerly known Mozmill tests and now Firefox ui tests have been located in their own repository. That meant that we always got regressions due to changes developers have been made in Firefox. Hunting down those regressions and fixing them was always a time consuming job. Bes