Running 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… Read More »Running the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test
Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities
Last month I blogged about the addition of micro-iterations in endurance tests. I was never 100% happy with the name for these, and although ‘micro-iteration’… Read More »Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities
QA Automation Services Work Week 2011 – Day 1
QAASWW11 kicked off yesterday with a day of planning at IdeaSpace in Cambridge, UK. We had a meeting room for the day – kindly offered… Read More »QA Automation Services Work Week 2011 – Day 1
Endurance 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… Read More »Endurance tests demonstrate Firefox’s memory usage improvements
Micro-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… Read More »Micro-iterations in Endurance Tests
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,… Read More »Endurance Tests in Firefox 6
Running the Selenium IDE Mozmill tests
A short while ago I posted about the Mozmill tests I’ve created for Selenium IDE, however I didn’t cover how you can run these tests… Read More »Running the Selenium IDE Mozmill tests
London Tester Gathering with Mozilla
Last week several members of the Mozilla QA team were in London, and we took advantage of this by sponsoring one of the regular London… Read More »London Tester Gathering with Mozilla
Testing Selenium IDE with Mozmill
Mozmill tests can be written for any Gecko based application, and can therefore be used to test Firefox extensions (add-ons). Since October I have been… Read More »Testing Selenium IDE with Mozmill
Running endurance tests with Mozmill Crowd
Ahead of our Mozmill Crowd testday last Friday we made some changes to the endurance tests, including enabling endurance test run within Mozmill Crowd! Running… Read More »Running endurance tests with Mozmill Crowd