Revision 1019362 of TaskCluster interactive session

<p>NOTE: This is a draft</p>

<p>If you are in this page, it is likely that you want to run tests in the same hosts that we run tests on Treeherder.</p>

<p>If you want to run Docker in your local host read <a href="Running_automated_tests/Docker">this page</a> instead.</p>

<p>For TaskCluster tasks (<a class="external external-icon" href="https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-central&amp;filter-searchStr=tc">Use 'tc' in Treeherder's filter</a>) you can get a task created based on the one you want that will get you an SSH and VNC like web pages inside of the Docker container.<br />
 For Buildbot jobs you will have to file a bug to get a <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Request_a_slave">loaner</a>.<br />
 The rest of this page will only talk about the interactive mode from TaskCluster.</p>

<p>NOTE: When you connect, be at ease that you can't wedge the machine you connect to because you're inside of a Docker container.</p>

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<h2 id="Connect_with_an_interactive_session">Connect with an interactive session</h2>

<p><span data-reactid=".9.1.0.0.1.0"><span data-reactid=".9.1.0.0.1.0.7">NOTE: This may not work with all tasks.</span></span></p>

<p>In order to re-create a task with interactive capacity follow these steps:</p>

<ol>
 <li>Click on desired job on Treeherder</li>
 <li>Find "Inspect task" hyperlink in the details panel and click on it</li>
 <li>Find and click "Log-in" button at top right
  <ul>
   <li>Choose your login method and click on "Grant access"</li>
  </ul>
 </li>
 <li>Back to the task click on the "Task" tab on the top left and click on it</li>
 <li>Find and click on "One-Click Loaner" button
  <ul>
   <li>You will see a prompt explaining how this task will be different than the original</li>
  </ul>
 </li>
 <li>You will get to a new page and will have to wait until your loaner is ready (minutes to seconds)
  <ol>
   <li>It will be ready when you see "Loaner ready!"</li>
   <li>NOTE: You have 5 minutes to connect before it shuts down</li>
  </ol>
 </li>
 <li>Click on "Shell" and/or "Display" and that's it!
  <ul>
   <li>At this point you will also see a hyperlink to the task that is running as interactive</li>
   <li>Under such task you will see under "Artifacts": <span data-reactid=".1.0.0"><span data-reactid=".1.0.0.3.1.0.0"><u>display.html</u> and <u>shell.html</u> which is the same as clicking on the links from step 7</span></span></li>
  </ul>
 </li>
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<p><strong>BEWARE</strong>: At the moment, the test execution will start immediately and start running the tests. You can see the output of such run by clicking on the 'TaskId' hyperlink from step 7 and then clicking on "Run 0" tab. If you kill mozharness or firefox you will wedge your interactive session. This will be fixed in following iterations.</p>

<h3 id="Run_tests_inside_of_an_interactive_session">Run tests inside of an interactive session</h3>

<p>TBD; We need to do some work here to allow for this.</p>