How-Tos

Welcome

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

Wiki

Adding 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. Creating a Wiki page Here are two ways to create a wiki page: A) Step 1 Enter a title of a page into the search box on the left side and click on go. Step 2 A new page appears saying that the page could not be found. Click on create this page. Step 3 Enter anything into the text box and press save.       A new page has been created. To create a page in a sub-directory. Change the link to testing/test_page.

Mozilla

Firefox
	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 Run all Mochitests A) Step 1 cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest Step 2 python runtests.py B) Step 1 cd $(OBJDIR) Step 2 make -C $(OBJDIR) mochitest Specific Mochitests can be run by the following: Step 1 cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest Step 2 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.