Endurance Tests in Firefox 6
One of the features of the upcoming Firefox 6 is an improvement to the handling and reporting of memory resources. As you can probably imagine, this is very applicable to the endurance tests project....
View ArticleMicro-iterations in Endurance Tests
Last week micro-iterations landed in Mozmill Endurance Tests. These allow tests to accumulate resources during an iteration. This was previously achieved by leaving the state of the test snippet in a...
View ArticleEndurance tests demonstrate Firefox’s memory usage improvements
Thanks to the amazing efforts of the MemShrink project, Firefox’s memory usage is seeing some great improvements. In particular, Firefox 7 will be much more efficient with memory than the current...
View ArticleRunning the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test
I blogged a few weeks ago about how I was able to demonstrate improvements to the memory usage of Firefox using endurance tests. The test I was using was inspired by Stuart Parmenter’s Mem Buster test,...
View ArticleAdding Mozmill tests to the Selenium IDE build system
Back in April I blogged about the Mozmill tests I’d written to test Selenium IDE. I followed up in June with a blog post covering how to run these tests. The natural progression is to add these tests...
View ArticleQ3/2011 in review
In the hope that I might inspire others to do the same, I’ve created a few screencasts showing some of the cool things I worked on in the last quarter. I’ve tried to keep them all short, and they’re...
View ArticleMozilla application downloader released
This week part of the Automation Tools team have gathered at the London Mozilla Space to work on migrating our Firefox automated UI tests to Mozmill 2.0. A considerable part of this work is converting...
View ArticleMore realistic endurance test results
If you’re not already familiar with the Firefox endurance tests, these are Mozmill tests that repeat a small snippet of user interaction over and over again while gathering metrics. This allows us to...
View ArticleCustom Firefox Cufflinks
If you’re interested in a pair of custom Firefox logo cufflinks for $25 plus postage then please get in touch. I’ve been in contact with CuffLinks.com, and if I can place an initial order of at least...
View ArticleFirefox Cufflinks
The custom made Firefox cufflinks have arrived! I’ll be working out shipping costs, and posting them out this week.
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