Re: mochitest and electrolysis

On 6/3/10 2:31 PM, jmaher wrote:
> Lately I have been working on getting the mochitest harness working
> inside of fennec + electrolysis.  This project is coming along well
> and I am looking forward to landing it on mozilla-central in the near
> future.  For reference, here is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567417
>
> One of the requests for having this is so people can write new
> mochitests that exercise IPC specific functionality.  There are a few
> concerns I have when thinking about running these new tests:
> * How will we specify what code runs in chrome and content processes?

mochitest-plain (which is what you're currently working on) are just 
content. We basically want to make sure that various pieces of content 
functionality work correctly.

> * Since mochitest relies on the messageManager channel, is there
> danger of these tests disabling or crashing this channel?

We will in the future want to have tests which intentionally crash the 
content process so that we can test recovery behavior, but that is not 
currently the primary focus.

If there are tests which need to run arbitrary testing code in both the 
chrome and content processes, they should be chrome tests, and the test 
itself can set up a <browser remote="true"> and run whatever specialized 
code it wants. I think that should work right now. We may want to add some 
JS library support for that kind of thing in the future, but I don't know 
exactly what it would do yet.

--BDS