Author Archives: Dave

Automating BrowserID with Selenium

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Dave

BrowserID is an awesome new approach to handling online identity. If you haven’t heard of it then I highly recommend reading this article, which explains what it is and how it works. Several Mozilla projects have already integrated with BrowserID, … Continue reading →

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Case Conductor pytest plugin proposal

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dave

Case Conductor is the new test case management tool being developed by Mozilla to replace Litmus. I’ve recently been thinking about how we can improve the relationship between our automated tests and our test case management, and want to sare … Continue reading →

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Hooking Android up to the (Selenium) Grid

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Dave

When I set myself a Q4 goal of getting a small suite of Mozilla’s WebQA tests running on Android I didn’t think it would be much work. The AndroidDriver has been around for some time, and from what I understood … Continue reading →

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Q3/2011 in review

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

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 all … Continue reading →

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Adding Mozmill tests to the Selenium IDE build system

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Dave

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 into the … Continue reading →

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Running the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dave

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, and it has now … Continue reading →

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Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dave

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’ is a good description of what’s happening (it’s a loop within a loop) it’s difficult … Continue reading →

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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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