def run_mochitest_general(self, test_paths, flavor=None, test_objects=None,
                              **kwargs):
        self._preruntest()

        from mozbuild.testing import TestResolver

        if test_objects:
            tests = test_objects
        else:
            resolver = self._spawn(TestResolver)
            tests = list(resolver.resolve_tests(paths=test_paths,
                                                cwd=self._mach_context.cwd))

        # Our current approach is to group the tests by suite and then perform
        # an invocation for each suite. Ideally, this would be done
        # automatically inside of core mochitest code. But it wasn't designed
        # to do that.
        #
        # This does mean our output is less than ideal. When running tests from
        # multiple suites, we see redundant summary lines. Hopefully once we
        # have better machine readable output coming from mochitest land we can
        # aggregate that here and improve the output formatting.

        suites = {}
        for test in tests:
            # Filter out non-mochitests.
            if test['flavor'] not in FLAVORS:
                continue

            if flavor and test['flavor'] != flavor:
                continue

            suite = FLAVORS[test['flavor']]
            suites.setdefault(suite, []).append(test)

        mochitest = self._spawn(MochitestRunner)
        overall = None
        for suite, tests in sorted(suites.items()):
            result = mochitest.run_desktop_test(
                self._mach_context,
                test_paths=[
                    test['file_relpath'] for test in tests],
                suite=suite,
                **kwargs)
            if result:
                overall = result

        return overall