This should be running GeckoView in e10s mode. We only support one child
process right now, but we may try to increase that soonish. Resource
consumption is a big concern. The parent process is shared with the host
application right now, but we would like to split that out as well.
James
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:00 PM Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks a lot, this is great news!
>
> What's the process model configuration for this testing platform? Do
> these tests run in single process mode or are they running in some e10s
> like environment? Is there some documentation that explains what runs in
> which process?
>
> Thanks,
> Ehsan
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:44 PM Geoffrey Brown <gbr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> This week some familiar tier 1 test suites began running on a new test
>> platform labelled "Android 7.0 x86" on treeherder. Only a few test suites
>> are running so far; more are planned.
>>
>> Like the existing "Android 4.2" and "Android 4.3" test platforms, these
>> tests run in an Android emulator running in a docker container (the same
>> Ubuntu-based image used for linux64 tests). The new platform runs an x86
>> emulator using kvm acceleration, enabling tests to run much, much faster
>> than on the older platforms. As a bonus, the new platform uses Android 7.0
>> ("Nougat", API 24) - more modern, more relevant.
>>
>> This test platform was added to support geckoview testing. Tests run in
>> the
>> geckoview-based TestRunnerActivity (not Firefox for Android).
>>
>> To reproduce the main elements of this test environment locally:
>> - build for Android x86 (mozconfig with --target=i686-linux-android)
>> - 'mach android-emulator' or explicitly 'mach android-emulator --version
>> x86-7.0'
>> - install the geckoview androidTest apk
>> - run your test command using --app to specify the geckoview test app,
>> something like 'mach mochitest ... --app=org.mozilla.geckoview.test'
>>
>> Great thanks to the many people who have helped enable this test platform,
>> especially :wcosta for help with taskcluster and :jchen for investigating
>> test failures.
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>
>
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> Ehsan
>
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