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Welcome

Welcome to the Seneca How-To page. You'll find How-To's for all things Open Source related.

Wiki


Adding a how-to


To add a how-to to this page add a heading under the correct category OR create a category if one doesn't exist. There are currently no formatting or style rules. The suggestion is to be clean and well laid out. Look over the current how-to's to get a feel on how your tutorial should be laid out. Thank you for the contribution.


Creating a Wiki page


Here are two ways to create a wiki page:

A)
Step 1
Enter a title of a page into the search box on the left side and click on go. How-tos-wiki-page-search.JPG
Step 2
A new page appears saying that the page could not be found. Click on create this page. How-tos-wiki-page-create.JPG
Step 3
Enter anything into the text box and press save. How-tos-wiki-page-save.JPG
     
B)
Step 1
On some page choose the edit option. How-tos-wiki-page-edit.JPG
Step 2
Create a link to the page you want to created. Ex.
[[test_page | test]]
How-tos-wiki-page-edit link.JPG
Step 3
Click on the Show Preview button. The link now appears in red. This indicates that the page the link is pointing to does not exist. How-tos-wiki-page-save.JPG
Step 4
Click on the red link. A page appears with 'You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet'. How-tos-wiki-page-doesnt exist.JPG
Step 5
Enter anything into the text box and press save. How-tos-wiki-page-save.JPG
 


A new page has been created.

To create a page in a sub-directory. Change the link to testing/test_page.

Mozilla

Firefox

 

Automated Tests



For an overview on Automated testing with Mozilla can be found on the Mozilla Developer Center.

A requirement for all test is to make sure that Firefox is compiled with tests enabled.
Modify the .mozconfig file to include ac_add_options --enable-tests
Build Firefox from source.


Mochitests


Run all Mochitests
A)

Step 1

cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest

Step 2

python runtests.py

B)

Step 1

cd $(OBJDIR)

Step 2

make -C $(OBJDIR) mochitest

Specific Mochitests can be run by the following:

Step 1

cd $(OBJDIR)/_tests/testing/mochitest

Step 2

python runtests.py --test-path=content/base/test/test_CrossSiteXHR.html

There are more options that are available for running Mochitests.


XPCShell


Step 1

cd path/to/source/
make check

How to make xpcshell tests.


Reftests


Step 1

cd path/to/source/
path/to/dist/bin/firefox -no-remote -reftest layout/reftests/reftest.list

Here is a readme on reftests.

Thunderbird

Open Office

Eclipse

Linux

Fedora