Adding a keyword to mochitest and xpcshell manifests

Keywords in mochitest and xpcshell test manifests allow us to determine which tests we want to skip and which we want to run.

Current behavior

Currently, gecko builds generate a target.mozinfo.json with metadata about the build. An example target.mozinfo.json might look like this. This lets us use skip-if in test manifests, like:

skip-if = e10s && os == 'win'

In this case, e10s is a keyword. Keywords are essentially booleans in mozinfo, since we don’t have to compare them to something like os == 'win'.

The test will download the build’s target.mozinfo.json, then update the mozinfo dictionary with additional runtime information based on the task or runtime environment. This logic lives in mozinfo.

How to add a keyword

The easiest route may be to patch mozinfo. For example, for Apple Silicon, we can add an apple_silicon keyword with a patch like this:

--- a/testing/mozbase/mozinfo/mozinfo/mozinfo.py
+++ b/testing/mozbase/mozinfo/mozinfo/mozinfo.py
@@ -144,19 +144,29 @@ elif system == "Darwin":
     os_version = "%s.%s" % (versionNums[0], versionNums[1])
     info["os"] = "mac"
 elif sys.platform in ("solaris", "sunos5"):
     info["os"] = "unix"
     os_version = version = sys.platform
 else:
     os_version = version = unknown

+info["apple_silicon"] = False
+if (
+    info["os"] == "mac"
+    and float(os_version) > 10.15
+    and processor == "i386"
+    and bits == "64bit"
+):
+    info["apple_silicon"] = True
+
 info["version"] = version
 info["os_version"] = StringVersion(os_version)

+
 # processor type and bits
 if processor in ["i386", "i686"]:
     if bits == "32bit":
         processor = "x86"
     elif bits == "64bit":
         processor = "x86_64"
 elif processor.upper() == "AMD64":
     bits = "64bit"