On 12/05/2015 20:23, Henrik Skupin wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to finally announce that we are going to discontinue > any kind of development for the Mozmill framework and tests for > Firefox. The reason is that there is simply no man power to further > develop this tool. Also it's plainly only myself who has the > knowledge of how it works and how it grew over the past 6 years. It's > simply not scalable anymore. > > Since end of last year we (members of the A-Team) were actively > working on replacing our tests. As you can imagine there is lots of > work to do. To being able to better spread work around we basically > have chosen the wider known Marionette framework. It's already in use > by some products, has the standardized Webdriver API, and has a > better platform for today's requirements compared to Mozmill. > > So lots of new features and bug fixes went into Marionette during > the last quarter. All of those were necessary to support at least the > most important features of Mozmill like running different locales, > exercising restart tests, and others. As result we now have > Marionette in a state to get started in replacing Mozmill tests. We > even have some tests converted last quarter, so the important > security and update tests could be flipped over to Marionette now. > The new test suite itself is named Firefox UI Tests and can be > accessed via: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ui-tests.
Thunderbird currently uses mozmill. Will Marionette[1] be available for Thunderbird? Is there a porting guide? Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [1] Marionette is also a character from Micronauts _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
