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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Using the dm utility to interact with Android or FirefoxOS devices
I promised a few people I’d blog about this, so here you go. To help with the business of making Android or FirefoxOS devices do our bidding, Mozilla Automation & Tools developed a Python library called mozdevice which allows you … Continue reading
Catching problems early with python
Just a few quick notes on how to avoid a class of errors I’ve been seeing in Mozilla’s automation over the last year. Since python interprets code dynamically, it’s pretty easy for problems like undefined variables to slip through, especially … Continue reading
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