Firebug Test Automation Phase 1 complete
Yesterday afternoon I posted a somewhat cryptic tweet:
Orange ftw. Blog post to follow. http://twitpic.com/gcizx
Well, here’s the blog post.
That little orange box is the first successful run of Firebug’s FBTest test automation tool through buildbot. It’s currently posting to the MozillaTest Tinderbox.
This is phase 1. We’re currently running Firebug’s 1.5 branch out of SVN against the latest linux build available in the Firefox 3.6 tinderbox builds directory. These are kicked off by SVN checkins to Firebug and FBTest. To give better coverage, and be somewhat more useful to Firefox devs, we’re going to run the latest built version of Firebug 1.5 against Firefox 3.6 branch and 3.7 trunk after a successful Tinderbox build. This will give us a known quantity (a Firebug that works in 3.5) testing against the different Firefox versions for incompatibilities. This should allow us to spot regressions as they happen in Firefox and report them much more quickly.
Once these are setup, we’ll create a separate Firebug tree, or if the sheriffs and drivers are amenable to it, drop a column on the appropriate Firefox tree on Tinderbox. I also want to experiment with different notification systems.
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