There have been some problems recently that could have been avoided
if we'd been running automated tests for Firefox OS on debug builds,
which we aren't currently doing on https://tbpl.mozilla.org/ .

I think the important characteristic here that we need is that we
need to test builds compiled with -DDEBUG.  It doesn't matter if the
builds are optimized or not (given that I'm under the impression
that running non-optimized B2G is unacceptably slow) and I'd think
we don't want debug symbols to be part of the binaries on the device
(which is a characteristic of debug builds on desktop, though I'd
hope that the build system already does something reasonable here).

I wrote a blog post explaining more generally why I think this is
important:  http://dbaron.org/log/20130729-debug-builds

Are there plans to have B2G automated tests running on debug builds?
What's the status, and what's in the way of it happening?

-David

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𝄞   L. David Baron                         http://dbaron.org/   𝄂
𝄢   Mozilla                           http://www.mozilla.org/   𝄂
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