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

Mochitests

Steps to run tests on Firefox
Step 1

Step 2

Build Firefox

Step 3
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.