Do we even have tests which run on a real device? 

If not, how can we write a test to verify that a call can be made? 

Dave Hylands 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Julien Wajsberg" <[email protected]>
> To: "dev-b2g" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:05:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [b2g] Smoketest Regressions on Trunk are Out of Control

> (answering on dev-b2g only, crossposting is painful)

> Le 03/06/2014 17:53, L. David Baron a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 2014-06-03 08:13 -0700, Jason Smith wrote:
> >> I need this under control as soon as possible, as these regressions are
> >> causing the build to move towards being completely not functional. I'm
> >> also debating if we should close the Gaia tree at this point since
> >> there's now risk that we can end up with a non-functional build.
> >>
> >> Can we get this under control here? If closing the Gaia tree will help
> >> this, then let's do that.
> > A somewhat radical proposal:
> >
> > 1. Close the tree, find the patches that caused the regressions,
> > back them out, and reopen the tree.
> >
> > 2. Don't let the patches reland until a test has been added that is
> > green without the patch, but would have caused orange when
> > combined with the regression.
> >
> > If the regression was at a platform level or other lower level
> > than the gaia app, the test could be too. But if that's the case
> > it would also be good to have test coverage of the gaia apps.
> >
> > We're not always this strict about test coverage in Gecko-land,
> > but it's been useful to be strict in areas with the problem of
> > frequent regressions.
> >
> > Not getting tests added that catch these problems is an accumulation
> > of technical debt. Perhaps now really is a bad time to deal with
> > this, but there ought to be a time to do so.
> >

> yes, this is exactly the path we try to follow nowadays. I hope it will
> make us more resilient in the future.

> --
> Julien
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