QA/Automation/Projects/Addons/NightlyTesterTools

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Overview

Name: Nightly Tester Tools (NTT)
Leads: Henrik Skupin, Dave Hunt
Team Assistance: Tony Mechelynck, Szabolcs Hubai
addons.mozilla.org: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nightly-tester-tools/
Issues: https://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt/issues
Repository: https://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt
Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/qas-addons-ntt

Summary

Nightly Tester Tools is an extension that is a collection of useful tools for users of Firefox nightly builds. It was previously owned by Dave Townsend, but now is maintained by the Automation and Tools team. They're leading an effort to revive Nightly Tester Tools and make it even better.

Nightly Tester Tools features the ability to disable add-on compatibility checks, crucial for nightly testers.

Contact us on IRC via #automation.

Development

See https://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt/blob/master/README.md for how to get Nightly Tester Tools for desktop setup.

  • Desktop Nightly Tester Tools' code lives on a Github repo
  • Mobile Nightly Tester Tools' code lives on a Github repo

Settings

If you know where this extension's settings are documented, please fill it in here.

AFAIK, there is no Preferences UI for this extension in the addons manager, its settings must be set directly in about:config (or in the Thunderbird Config Editor). They start with nightly. and IIUC you shouldn't change nightly.currChangeset and nightly.prevChangeset — these two are for data which the extension needs to remember from one session to the next; the others are its preferences. — Tonymec 15:47, 10 November 2011 (PST)

The following describes the known settings, but the table is not complete. If you know anything that's missing, please fill it in; if there is an error, please correct it.

  • Note: In the first column, we have added a space after each dot. This is intentional; these spaces are not part of the name, they are only there to allow line-breaking in the "name" cells if necessary.
Name Type Values
nightly. currChangeset String
nightly. disableCheckCompatibility Boolean true:
false (default): Opposite of the above.
nightly. idtitle Boolean true (default):
false: Opposite of the above.
nightly. prevChangeset String
nightly. templates. buildid String Template for the string inserted by "Tools → Nightly Tester Tools → Copy Build ID to Clipboard" or "Tools → Nightly Tester Tools → Insert Build ID into Textbox".
Default: ${UserAgent} ID:${AppBuildID}${Flags} CSet: ${Changeset}
nightly. templates. title String Template for the window title.
Default: ${DefaultTitle} (Build ${AppBuildID})

Variables

Name Value
${Profile} Profile name
${UserAgent} useragent
${AppBuildID} BuildID

Ideas

If you'd like to propose ideas on how to make the extension better, feel free to file a bug within this handy form!


We also have a list of things to do already filed that you can look through.