Re: xpcshell tests for electrolysis

On Sep 3, 5:58 pm, Jonathan Griffin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last week there was some discussion about testing of electrolysis.  One
> of the ideas was to use xpcshell to test some things across processes, e.g.,
>
>    1. set a preference in chrome using nsIPrefMan (or whatever)
>    2. send an ipcshell command to the child process that reads the
> preference and returns its value to the chrome process
>    3. in the chrome process, assert that the value is correct
>
> This kind of test is now possible, thanks to BenT's work in xpcshell.
>
> Now I'm looking for ideas for other kinds of electrolysis tests that
> would be interesting to perform in this context.  Any suggestions?
>
> Jonathan

I'm planning to add xpcshell tests for the necko e10s work as I
implement it.

Jason