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Revision as of 15:32, 28 November 2008

Welcome

Welcome to the Seneca How-To page. You'll find How-To's for all things Open Source related.

Wiki

How to add a how-to

To add a how-to to this page add a heading under the correct category OR create a category if one doesn't exist. There are currently no formatting or style rules. The suggestion is to be clean and well laid out. Look over the current how-to's to get a feel on how your tutorial should be laid out. Thank you for the contribution.

Mozilla

Firefox

 
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Automated Tests

For an overview on Automated testing with Mozilla can be found on the Mozilla Developer Center.

A requirement for all test is to make sure that Firefox is compiled with tests enabled.
Modify the .mozconfig file to include ac_add_options --enable-tests
Build Firefox from source.


Mochitests

Step 1

A)
Run the Mochitests

cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest
python runtests.py

or

make -C $(OBJDIR) mochitest

B)
Specific Mochitests can be run by the following:

cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest
python runtests.py --test-path=content/base/test/test_CrossSiteXHR.html

There are more options that are available for running Mochitests.


XPCShell

Step 1

cd path/to/source/
make check

How to make xpcshell tests.


Reftests

Step 1

cd path/to/source/
path/to/dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -reftest layout/reftests/reftest.list

Here is a readme on reftests.

Thunderbird

Open Office

Eclipse

Linux

Fedora