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Dave Hunt
I’ve written a little command line tool for interacting with Gaia, which is the front-end for Firefox OS. The main reason for this is the Eideticker CI project needed a way to connect to a WiFi network before running the … Continue reading → Continue reading
nhirata
https://github.com/jrburke/gaia-dev-zip#for-the-developer Just recently heard about this… it’s something for dev to use so UX can review easier.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: B2G, Planet
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Dave Hunt
Note: This is revised version of a previous blog post due to some important changes on running Firefox OS UI tests on the Firefox OS desktop build. It’s still a little difficult to get your hands on a device that … Continue reading → Continue reading
nhirata
It took a while to hunt down a site that allowed for free hosting of 50 gigs or more and then post the file up. There are certain modifications I had made from yesterday to the image as well. There … Continue reading →
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Syndicator
By Zac Campbell Greetings Gaia UI testing blog readers. If you’ve come this far then you’re well aware that Firefox OS’s front end is an HTML operating system. This means that system prompts and dialogs like javascript.alert are written in … Continue reading → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
Working on the Firefox OS automation, it’s often been necessary to populate a device with some sample content. For example, when measuring the launch time of the contacts app it’s more realistic if we already have a bunch of contacts … Continue reading → Continue reading
Syndicator
By Zac Campbell While a Firefox OS app is HTML, CSS and JavaScript we are all familiar with there are some significant design differences. These design differences are necessary because users have different expectations depending upon the device they’re using, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
Note: This post has been revised. It’s a little difficult to get your hands on a device that can run Firefox OS right now, but if you’re interested in running the UI tests a device is not essential. This guide … Continue reading → Continue reading
Syndicator
NOTE: I put this up on my blog almost 6 months ago – and never realized it didn’t get published at the time! Chris Heilmann and I just finished our keynote at Campus Party Recife in this lovely Brazillian coastal town. It’s amazing to see t… Continue reading
Syndicator
by Zac Campbell In Part 2 we’ll talk about how Firefox OS uses the iframe HTML element for displaying apps. This behaviour is quite different to a typical webpage. If you’ve already used Firefox OS thus far then you’ll realise … Continue reading → Continue reading