Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee) Reporter
	Description • 18 years ago

Invoke reftest from a script like runtests.pl in mochitest to create and run a specific profile. Currently the testing boxes are running reftest directly and creating a dummy profile (or just using defaults that have been changed). This is undesirable if reftest ever changes preferences requirements on one or more platforms.

See, bug 371866 for earlier discussion.

	Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)
	Comment 1 • 18 years ago

Have you considered reusing any of the code I use for this type of thing?

	Nickolay_Ponomarev
	Comment 2 • 18 years ago

Out of interest, what is the code you use, and does it have anything in common with mochitest's runtests.pl?

	Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)
	Comment 3 • 18 years ago

<http://bclary.com/log/2007/03/07/framework> and no.

	Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently
	Comment 5 • 17 years ago

So for what it's worth in bug 379959 I'm now needing to set some preferences in order to correctly run tests. I can work around it for now by manually changing a bunch of tests, but it's definitely a pain (and in this case risks breaking crashtests in ways we won't detect)

	David Baron :dbaron:
	Comment 6 • 16 years ago

Bug 430652 has a patch containing code to do this (and some other stuff, that needs to be taken out of it).

	(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek Assignee
	Comment 7 • 16 years ago

We could probably just use automation.py nowadays and write a runtests.py-like script that handles anything special that's needed.

	David Baron :dbaron:
	Comment 8 • 16 years ago

The code in bug 430652 does that (it just has a little too much extra for the "anything special that's needed").

	Ray Kiddy
	Comment 9 • 16 years ago

FYI, there are probably enough different scripts that have been checked in that do similar, but not quite identical, things to enable automated testing that there could be a "Tools" section of the page http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_automated_testing.

I could start such a section but I would have to do a "find src -name \*py -o -name \*pl" and I am sure there is a smarter way to find these....

	David Baron :dbaron:
	Comment 10 • 16 years ago

Looks like the patch in bug 468913 fixes this too.

	(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek Assignee
	Comment 11 • 16 years ago

Fixed in bug 468913.