On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Blair McBride <bmcbr...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Default options imply the default is somehow favoured over the
> non-default. Which, for this, makes me wonder: Is getting tests passing on
> non-e10s less important now?
>

Fennec doesn't use e10s, so at least for tests that cover both desktop and
Android, they're both equally important.  Plus, as I understand the plans,
we're going to be shipping e10s and non-e10s on desktop at the same time to
different users at least for a while.


> I've found the ergonomics around testing both to be quite a footgun - it's
> a manual process to run tests under both modes, and it's too easy to forget
> to run tests under the other mode. Would be handy to have a switch to
> enable running under both modes (or even better, defaulting to both modes).
>
> - Blair
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Halberstadt wrote:
>
>> Bug 1243083 tracks enabling e10s by default when running tests locally.
>> I intend to do this for as many harnesses as possible unless someone
>> says otherwise.
>>
>> The implication is that the --e10s flag will be renamed to
>> --disable-e10s. So you'll need to pass in --disable-e10s if you wish to
>> run without e10s enabled. This also means that tests that are skipped
>> with 'e10s' will no longer run by default locally. The hope is that this
>> will make it easier for devs to find and fix tests that are broken with
>> e10s enabled, as well as ensure that new tests work with e10s right out
>> of the gate. CI jobs will not be affected, only running locally.
>>
>> One potential sticking point is mochitest-chrome. It currently does not
>> get run in e10s in CI, so local configuration should mirror this.
>> However, since --e10s is being removed, this means it would be
>> impossible to run mochitest-chrome in e10s without modifying source
>> files. Maybe this just needs some argparse hackery.
>>
>> If you have any concerns or know of other suites that should explicitly
>> *not* be run with e10s enabled by default, please let me know.
>>
>> Andrew
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