Re: MOSQUITO project to contribute to HTML5 tests

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Steve Block <steveblock@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Fabrice,
>
> Thanks for your email. You're right that currently there are no tests
> for DeviceOrientation.
>
> It's tricky to reliably test a sensor-based API like this using
> automated tests because you can't make guarantees about the accuracy
> of a given implementation. Our current approach is to provide a simple
> test application which would be used to test the API manually [1].

> I'd certainly be interested to see the tests that you would propose
> for DeviceOrientation. Did you have a strategy in mind at this point?

fwiw, Mozilla has plans to test such things by using a system-qemu and
adjusting the sensor values "Marionette" [1].

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Marionette

Received on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 22:12:42 UTC