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=== Nov. 05, 2006 ===
I didn't know where else to put this so I'm putting this here. While searching around for the elusive Mozilla tests that are run in Tinderbox, I found [http://wiki.mozilla.org/SoftwareTesting:Scratchpad this gem]. All of the tests are apparently located in the ''mozilla/testing'' directory and can be checked out using this command while at the ''mozilla'' directory:
cvs update -d testing
The tests we would most likely be interested in are located in the ''tinderbox-standalone-tests'' subdirectory. Based on a quick scan of the perl files there, the ''test-mozilla.pl'' file in that directory seems to drive the tests located in the ''Tests'' subdirectory which seem to contain a lot of performance tests. The arguments that the test subroutines receive (such as build directory and binary name) seem to come from the ''Settings.pm'' file located in the ''mozilla/testing/Util'' directory.
Attempts to run the tests have so far been unsuccessful. If someone (hint hint) could figure out how to run these tests and how these tests work that would be great.
Up Next:
* Based on how much time I predict I will have left to work on this, I don't think I will have enough time to do the Change/Changeset classes for Codeblock or Line. Therefore, it's time to skip ahead and work on the application of changes. Should the user be able to pass in an array of indices of changes to apply in a changeset? Or is just allowing the user to give one index good enough? We may find that out soon enough when we try to implement the delta debugging algorithm.
=== Oct. 26, 2006 ===