See the instructions for how to check out and build Chromium for iOS.
The Chromium projects use buildbot for continuous integration. This doc starts with an overview of the system, then gives detailed explanations about each part.
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Commits are made using the commit queue, which triggers a series of try jobs to compile and test the proposed patch against Chromium tip of tree before actually making the commit. If the try jobs succeed the patch is committed. A newly committed change triggers the builders (or "bots") to compile and test the change again.
Bots are slaves attached to a buildbot master (or "waterfall"). A buildbot master is a server which polls for commits to a repository and triggers workers to compile and test new commits whenever they are detected. chromium.mac is the main waterfall for Mac desktop and iOS. tryserver.chromium.mac serves as the try server for Mac desktop and iOS.
The bots know how to check out a given revision of Chromium, compile, and test.
The masters are configured in tools/build, a separate repository which contains various infra-related scripts.
chromium.mac uses a GitilesPoller which polls the Chromium repository for
new commits using the gitiles interface. When a new commit is detected, the
bots are triggered.
The bots run recipes, which are scripts that specify their sequence of steps located in tools/build. An iOS-specific recipe module contains common functionality that the various iOS recipes use.
Because the recipes live in another repository, changes to the recipes don't
go through the Chromium commit queue and aren't tested on the try server.
In order to allow bot changes to be tested by the commit queue, the recipes
for iOS are generic instead of bot-specific, and rely on configuration files
which live in master-specific JSON config files located in src/ios/build/bots.
These configs define the gn_args to use during compilation as well as the
tests to run.
The test runner is the script which installs and runs the tests, interprets the results, and collects any files emitted by the test ("test data"). It can be found in src/ios/build/bots/scripts, which means changes to the test runner can be tested on the try server.
Goma is the distributed build system used by Chromium. It reduces compilation time by avoiding recompilation of objects which have already been compiled elsewhere.
Tests run on swarming, a distributed test system used by Chromium. After compilation, configured tests will be zipped up along with their necessary dependencies ("isolated") and sent to the swarming server for execution. The server issues tasks to its attached workers for execution. The bots themselves don't run any tests, they trigger tests to be run remotely on the swarming server, then wait and display the results. This allows multiple tests to be executed in parallel.
Try bots are bots which test proposed patches which are not yet committed.
Request try job access in order to trigger try jobs against your patch. The
relevant try bots for an iOS patch are ios-device and ios-simulator. These
bots can be found on the Mac-specific try server. A try job is said to succeed
when the build passes (i.e. when the bot successfully compiles and tests the
patch).
ios-device compiles for the iOS device architecture (arm64) and runs no tests.
A build is considered successful so long as compilation is successful.
ios-simulator compiles for the iOS simulator architecture (x86_64), and runs
tests in the iOS simulator. A build is considered successful when both
compilation and all configured tests succeed.
ios-device and ios-simulator both compile using the version of clang
defined by the CLANG_REVISION in the Chromium tree.
Triggering a try job and collecting its results is accomplished using buildbucket. The service allows for build requests to be put into buckets. A request in this context is a set of properties indicating things such as where to get the patch. The try bots are set up to poll a particular bucket for build requests which they execute and post the results of.
In addition to goma, the try bots use another time-saving mechanism called the analyzer to determine the subset of compilation targets affected by the patch that need to be compiled in order to run the affected tests. If a patch is determined not to affect a certain test target, compilation and execution of the test target will be skipped.
See the configs code location for where to find the config files for the bots. The config files are JSON which describe how the bot should compile and which tests it should run. The config files are located in the configs directory. The configs directory contains a named directory for each master. For example:
$ ls ios/build/bots
OWNERS scripts tests chromium.fyi chromium.macIn this case, configs are defined for iOS bots on chromium.fyi and chromium.mac. Inside each master-specific directory are JSON config files named after each bot. For example:
$ ls ios/build/bots/chromium.mac
ios-device.json ios-simulator.jsonThe ios-device bot on chromium.mac will read its configuration from
chromium.mac/ios-device.json in the configs directory.
{
"comments": [
"Sample config for a bot."
],
"gn_args": [
"is_debug=true",
"target_cpu=\"x64\"",
"target_environment=\"simulator\""
],
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_unittests",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0",
"xcode build version": "9A235"
}
]
}The comments key is optional and defines a list of strings which can be used
to annotate the config. You may want to explain why the bot exists and what it's
doing, particularly if there are extensive and atypical gn_args.
The gn_args key is a required list of arguments to pass to GN to generate
the build files. Two GN args are required, is_debug and target_cpu. Use
is_debug to define whether to compile for Debug or Release, and target_cpu
to define whether to compile for x64 or arm64. target_environment is used to
define whether to compile for simulator or device (as it cannot be deduced from
the cpu architecture as there exists both x64 and arm64 macOS devices). The iOS
bots typically perform Debug builds for the same architecture as the machine
running the tests (usually x64), and Release builds for arm64.
The tests key is an optional list of dictionaries defining tests to run. There
are two types of test dictionary, app and include. An app dict defines a
specific compiled app to run, for example:
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_unittests",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0",
"xcode build version": "9A235"
}
]This dict says to run ios_chrome_unittests on an iPhone 5s running iOS
11.0 using Xcode build version 9A235. A test dict may optionally define a
list of test args, which are arguments to pass directly to the test on the
command line, and it may define a boolean value xctest to indicate whether the
test is an xctest (default if unspecified is false). For example:
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_unittests",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0",
"test args": [
"--foo",
"--bar"
],
"xcode build version": "9A235"
},
{
"app": "ios_chrome_integration_egtests",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0",
"xcode build version": "9A235",
"xctest": true
}
]This defines two tests to run, first ios_chrome_unittests will be run with
--foo and --bar passed directly to the test on the command line. Next,
ios_chrome_integration_egtests will be run as an xctest. "xctest": true
must be specified for all xctests, it is an error to try and launch an xctest as
a regular test.
An include dict defines a list of tests to import from the tests
subdirectory in the configs directory. For example:
"tests": [
{
"include": "common_tests.json",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0",
"xcode build version": "9A235"
}
]This dict says to import the list of tests from the tests subdirectory and run
each one on an iPhone 5s running iOS 11.0 using Xcode 9A235. Here's what
common_tests.json might look like:
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_unittests"
},
{
"app": "ios_net_unittests"
},
{
"app": "ios_web_unittests"
},
]Includes may contain other keys besides app which can then be omitted in the
bot config. For example if common_tests.json specifies:
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_integration_egtests",
"xctest": true,
"xcode build version": "9A235"
}
]Then the bot config may omit the xctest or xcode build version keys, for
example:
{
"comments": [
"Sample config for a bot."
],
"gn_args": [
"is_debug=true",
"target_cpu=\"x64\"",
"target_environment=\"simulator\""
],
"tests": [
{
"include": "common_tests.json",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0"
}
]
}Includes are not recursive, so common_tests.json may not itself include any
include dicts.
Some keywords such as xcode build version can also be set globally per build:
{
"comments": [
"Sample config for a bot."
],
"gn_args": [
"is_debug=true",
"target_cpu=\"x64\"",
"target_environment=\"simulator\""
],
"xcode build version": "9A235",
"tests": [
{
"app": "ios_chrome_integration_egtests",
"device type": "iPhone 5s",
"os": "11.0"
}
]
}A bot may be configured to upload compiled artifacts. This is defined by the
upload key. For example:
{
"comments": [
"Sample config for a bot which uploads artifacts."
],
"gn_args": [
"is_debug=true",
"target_cpu=\"x64\"",
"target_environment=\"simulator\""
],
"upload": [
{
"artifact": "Chromium.breakpad",
"bucket": "my-gcs-bucket",
},
{
"artifact": "Chromium.app",
"bucket": "my-gcs-bucket",
"compress": true,
},
{
"artifact": "Chromium.breakpad",
"symupload": "https://clients2.google.com/cr/symbol",
}
]
}After compilation, the bot will upload three artifacts. First the
Chromium.breakpad symbols will be uploaded to
gs://my-gcs-bucket/<buildername>/<buildnumber>/Chromium.breakpad. Next
Chromium.app will be tarred, gzipped, and uploaded to
gs://my-gcs-bucket/<buildername>/<buildnumber>/Chromium.tar.gz. Finally
the Chromium.breakpad symbols will be uploaded to the breakpad crash
reporting server where they can be used to symbolicate stack traces.
If artifact is a directory, you must specify "compress": true.