How-Tos

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
	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

Linux

Fedora