I recently updated Standalone Talos to version 1.3.1. This version includes updates to Talos and Pageloader code along with some simple fixes:
- Upon starting, Standalone Talos now warns the user that all open browser windows must be closed before testing can begin and then exits. This was in response to the not terribly pleasant behavior described in Bug 454999 - Standalone talos kills all running Firefox processes. Be warned that Talos enters the browser kill/clean up code after each individual test is run - so if you start a secondary Firefox during testing it will get summarily killed.
- Removed some bad pages from the included web page test set used by Tp. A couple of the included pages displayed Flash warnings and can kill the browser. Since these problems were most likely introduced in the attempt to clean up the pages for testing purposes it isn’t considered a ‘real’ browser crash and we’d rather just ignore it.
- Better ability to recognize browser freeze up/crash. Way back with Bug 416911 - per-test timeout in talos, code was added to Talos to monitor the browser for activity - if it doesn’t load a page in a given amount of time it is considered to be busted. This is finally making its way into Standalone Talos.
Currently, Standalone Talos is simply a zipped up package of code, manifest files and test pages. In the future it would be smarter to have it checked into its own directory or have its own branch - as is, it only gets updated if I happen to remember that it has fallen out of date. That said, if you see a fix go into Talos that hasn’t yet been included in a version of Standalone Talos feel free to enter a bug under component “Release Engineering: Talos”.