I don't believe marionette currently works on Thunderbird, but that's
most likely due to hardcoded assumptions than any deep technical
reasons. It could probably be made to work with a little bit of effort,
it's just that to date, no one has tried.
I thought thunderbird was using a very out-of-date version of mozmill
which was already unmaintained anyway? Or did you already upgrade to the
latest version?
-Andrew
On 12/05/15 11:40 PM, Philip Chee wrote:
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
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