On 12/17/2014 01:27 PM, Martijn wrote:
> What about where setTimeout is used as a fallback for when some event
> failed to fire and the mochitest is stalled and the setTimeout is then
> used to finish the mochitest on time and give some useful debug info?
This exact scenario was called out in the initial message on this
thread, as a legitimate reasons to use setTimeout, and with instructions
on what to do. Quoting ehsan:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> * If you have a legitimate reason for using timeouts like this (such as if
>> your test needs to wait a bit to make sure an event doesn't happen in the
>> future, and there is no other way of checking that), you should call
>> SimpleTest.requestFlakyTimeout("reason");. The argument to the function is
>> a string which is meant to document why you need to use these kinds of
>> timeouts, and why that doesn't lead into intermittent test failures.
~Daniel
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