Mobile/Fennec/Android/Testing: Difference between revisions

A test harness (typically written in python) runs on the host computer. The harness uses the device manager to communicate with the Android device (by default, the adb device manager is used, which uses the adb command from the Android SDK). "Browser tests" like robocop, mochitest, and reftest run in the browser, so Firefox for Android must be installed on the device before starting the test. To serve remote content to browser tests, the harness runs xpcshell and other utilities on the host while the tests are running. Tests may load content from the host, so a network connection between host and device is essential.