Firefox Performance Testing : A Python framework for Windows

Project Name

Firefox Performance Testing : A Python framework for Windows

Project Description

The goal of this project is to:

• get the current framework up and running to help work with others
• get the framework running in an automated fashion
• help with the creation and execution of new tests
• work to upgrade the framework to work with a mozilla graph server
• work with the mozilla community and contribute to an open source project

From this project, you will:

• learn python
• learn about white box testing methodologies
• work with an open source community
• more generally learn about the functioning of QA in an open source community

This will benefit you in the future when presented with a new program, you'll be able to give an idea of how to approach testing - to give adequate coverage and be able to provide some metric of program stability and functionality

Note: This is NOT the typical mundane black box testing

Project Leader(s)

• Liz Chak (elichak)

Project Contributor(s)

Might require contributors down the road..

Project Details

This is different from Tinderbox. Two major differences are:

• First, it doesn't build, it just runs the performance test given a path to the executable. This is helpful if you're testing the performance of an extension or a build from another server. (You could build on a fast server, and then run performance tests on a machine with low memory).

• Second, it measures performance characteristics while it's running the pageload tests--you can track cpu speed, memory, or any of the other counters listed here.

Project News

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Performance tests ran sucessfully.

• However, there weren't any results generated in the extension_perf_testing\base_profile and extension_perf_reports folders.

Project Events

Bon Echo Community Test Day

Friday, September 22, 2006, from 7am - 5pm PDT

Mozilla QA Community:BonEcho 2.0RC1 prerelease Community Test Day