More 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… Read More »More realistic endurance test results
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Q3/2011 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… Read More »Q3/2011 in review
Adding 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… Read More »Adding Mozmill tests to the Selenium IDE build system
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
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
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