CloudServices/Sync/FxSync/Crossweave2

Goals

• JavaScript-ability
• improved error reporting (more finegrained, helpful, etc.)
• be a stable test suite across upcoming refactorings (War On Sync)
• provide reliable perf measurements (track regressions, etc.)

rnewman desires

• embed in JS tests? (embedded HTTP server?)
• support fuzz consistency tests
• more operations (restore from bookmarks to test wipe, for example)

Plan

• Rename to Test harness and Profiler for Sync (TPS)

• Python
  • [DONE] refactor using Mozmill 2.0
  • [DONE] remove support for the fx-sync repo and the the XPI version of sync
  • [DONE] improve error handling for timeout conditions and python exceptions
  • [DONE] connect to autolog
  • [DONE] convert config and manifest file format to JSON
  • remove result reporting to the MySQL db on brasstacks

• Harness
  • [DONE] clone tps repo from crossweave repo
  • refactor tests to JSON format
  • support JavaScript tests
  • refactor verify/verify-not/sync/... to be function calls
  • make all test execution async
  • move test files themselves to services/sync/tests/tps