Mozilla
David Clarke
When porting a chrome packaged app to a firefox packaged app you will need to do an inventory as to which chrome specific api’s you are using and create a level of abstraction around them, as the naming / capabilities of the apis vary across the platforms. I will try to break this article into […]
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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
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
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
Ioana Chiorean
At the end of March, when Siberian wind took over all Romania, I’ve received a warm welcome from the local IT community from Iași. I took part at the SOFTVISION Open Day event at the local office. SOFTVISION is one … Continue reading
Ioana Chiorean
At the end of month January, Developer Engagement Team organized an event world wide to encourage people to learn and hack apps for Firefox OS. More than 25 locations joined the movement and organized a Firefox OS App Days event … 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
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