Firefox UI update testing

We currently trigger manually UI update tests for Firefox releases. There are automated headless update verification tests but they don't test the UI of Firefox.

The goal is to integrate this UI update testing as part of the Firefox releases.

This will require changes to firefox-ui-tests, buildbot scheduling changes, Marionette changes and other Mozbase packages. The ultimate goal is to speed up our turn around on releases.

The update testing code was recently ported from Mozmill to use Marionette to drive the testing.

I've already written some documentation on how to run the update verification using Release Engineering configuration files. You can use my tools repository until the code lands (update_testing is the branch to be used).

My deliverable is to ensure that the update testing works reliably on Release Engineering infrastructure and there is existing scheduling code for it.

You can read more about this project in bug 1148546.

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