Welcome
Welcome to the Seneca How-To page. You'll find How-To's for all things Open Source related.
Wiki
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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:
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Step 1
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Enter a title of a page into the search box on the left side and click on go.
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Step 2
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A new page appears saying that the page could not be found. Click on create this page.
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Step 3
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Enter anything into the text box and press save.
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A new page has been created.
To create a page in a sub-directory. Change the link to testing/test_page.
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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.
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Mochitests
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Run all Mochitests
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cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest
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python runtests.py
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cd $(OBJDIR)
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make -C $(OBJDIR) mochitest
Specific Mochitests can be run by the following:
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cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest
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python runtests.py --test-path=content/base/test/test_CrossSiteXHR.html
There are more options that are available for running Mochitests.
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XPCShell
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cd path/to/source/
make check
How to make xpcshell tests.
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Reftests
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cd path/to/source/
path/to/dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -reftest layout/reftests/reftest.list
Here is a readme on reftests.
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Thunderbird
Open Office
Eclipse
Linux
Fedora
