Gaia

Gaia is Mozilla's Phone UX for the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project.

Boot to Gecko aims to create a complete, standalone operating system for the open web.

You can read more about B2G here:

http://mozilla.org/b2g

follow us on twitter: @Boot2Gecko

http://twitter.com/Boot2Gecko

join the Gaia mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.gaia

and talk to us on IRC:

#gaia on irc.mozilla.org

Hacking Gaia

The Gaia/Hacking page on MDN has all the information that you need to start working on Gaia, including building and running Gaia on a compatible device or desktop computer.

Tests

Unit Tests

Unit tests for an app go in apps/<APP>/test/unit/.

To run all the unit tests with B2G Desktop:

1. Run DEBUG=1 make

2. Run make test-agent-server &

3. Run B2G Desktop and open the Test Agent app

4. Run make test-agent-test

   or make test-agent-test APP=<APP> to run unit tests for a specific app

More importantly, you can use test-agent-server to watch the files on the filesystem and execute relevant tests when they change:

1. Run DEBUG=1 make
2. Run make test-agent-server &
3. Run B2G Desktop and open the Test Agent app
4. Edit files and when you save them, glance at the console with test-agent-server running

Note: If you add new files, you will need to restart test-agent-server.

As a convenience, you can also use the gaia-test script to launch the test-agent-server and open the Test Agent app in firefox:

1. Add firefox to your $PATH or set $FIREFOX to your preferred firefox/aurora/nightly binary.
2. Run ./bin/gaia-test to run the test-agent-server and launch firefox.
3. Run make test-agent-test or modify files as described above.

For more details on writing tests, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Gaia_Unit_Tests

Integration Tests

Integration tests for an app are located in apps/<APP>/test/integration/.

Prerequisites:

1. adb
2. FirefoxOS Device / Emulator / B2G Desktop

To run integration tests:

1. In your gaia/ directory, run make to build the profile

2. Run B2G Desktop

   or forward port 2828 from your device / emulator using adb forward tcp:2828 tcp:2828

3. Run make test-integration from the gaia/ directory

   or make test-integration APP=<APP> to run unit tests for a specified app

   or make test-integration TESTS=<PATH/TO/TESTFILE.js> to run unit tests in a specific file

   or make test-integration REPORTER=<REPORTER> to run integration tests with the specified reporter, for example XUnit

   or make test-integration TESTVARS=<PATH/TO/TESTVARS.json> to run tests with variables in the testvars file (this defaults to testvars.json)

Note: If you're using a FirefoxOS Device, it must have been flashed with a build with marionette enabled. If it doesn't have marionette enabled, then running make test-integration will time out.

The testvars file is a JSON file that maps app names to objects holding key/values as required by that app's integration tests. See that app's integration test code and/or README for which key/values are required.