Monthly Archives: July 2011

QA Automation Services Work Week 2011 – Day 1

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dave

QAASWW11 kicked off yesterday with a day of planning at IdeaSpace in Cambridge, UK. We had a meeting room for the day – kindly offered up by our new friends at Springboard – and plenty of instant whiteboard! As with … Continue reading →

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Endurance tests demonstrate Firefox’s memory usage improvements

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dave

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 version. As endurance tests monitor resources such as memory, … Continue reading →

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Micro-iterations in Endurance Tests

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dave

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 different state to how it started, allowing the iterations … Continue reading →

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