B2G/QA/WebAPI Test Plan/Geolocation

Geolocation API Test Plan

Summary

Lead	Martijn Wargers (irc: mw22)
Contributors	Xiao Meng Wei (irc: xwei)
API Description	Allows access to the geographical location of the device
API Developer	Doug Turner
API Project Page	Geolocation
API Tracking Bugs	bug 437948
API Status	Delivered and ready for test

Scope

This test plan covers functional testing of the Geolocation API as delivered for Boot2Gecko. It does not attempt to cover performance, security, or other kinds of testing at this time.

Strategy

• There are already mochitests for the Geolocation API here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/geolocation/
• UI testing related to the Geolocation API - tbd - john Hammink, Matt Brandt
• A test app should be created to verify the API on-device.

• Some other areas that could be tested:
  • inside (hidden and multiple) iframes
  • while in the background/background tab
  • on a deleted window/iframe
  • when screen turned off
  • Full screen
  • Private browsing mode
  • related prefs: ?

API

Geolocation API is defined as part of the nsIDOMNavigator interface. It includes:

• getCurrentPosition() to get a single position
• watchPosition() to get an update when the position has changed
• clearWatch() to clear the listener that is calling when watchPosition()

Geolocation API Specification

Methods

• void getCurrentPosition(in nsIDOMGeoPositionCallback successCallback,

                         [optional] in nsIDOMGeoPositionErrorCallback errorCallback,
                         /* GeoPositionOptions */
                         [optional] in jsval options);

• long watchPosition(in nsIDOMGeoPositionCallback successCallback,

                    [optional] in nsIDOMGeoPositionErrorCallback errorCallback,
                    /* GeoPositionOptions */
                    [optional] in jsval options);

• void clearWatch(in long watchId);

Tests

mochitest-plain

• http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/geolocation/
• http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/chrome/test_geolocation.xul

Test App Design

Basic test application can be found here.

URLS

• http://mozqa.com/data/firefox/geolocation/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_geolocation

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