Category Archives: Mozilla

Populating Firefox OS with test content

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Dave

Working on the Firefox OS automation, it’s often been necessary to populate a device with some sample content. For example, when measuring the launch time of the contacts app it’s more realistic if we already have a bunch of contacts … Continue reading →

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More realistic endurance test results

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Dave

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 again while gathering metrics. This allows us to detect if there’s a memory leak in … Continue reading →

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Running Firefox OS UI Tests Without a Device

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Dave

It’s a little difficult to get your hands on a device that can run Firefox OS right now, but if you’re interested in running the UI tests a device is not essential. This guide will show you how to run … Continue reading →

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FlynnID 0.3

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dave

I’ve just released an update to FlynnID. The primary change is that I’ve reintroduced the command line arguments, meaning a single node can be registered without the need for a configuration file. I’ve also hopefully learned my lesson, and in … Continue reading →

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Mozilla drops usage of Selenium RC

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Dave

I thought this was important enough to share in a short blog post… Just 10 months ago, Mozilla started to migrate their Selenium projects from the Selenium RC API to the WebDriver API. I’m thrilled to say that this is … Continue reading →

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BIDPOM drops support for Selenium RC

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Dave

As all of the active Mozilla Web QA automation projects are now using WebDriver, there is no longer a need for BIDPOM (Browser ID Page Object Model) to support Selenium RC. I considered keeping this support purely for the community, … Continue reading →

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FlynnID 0.2

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Dave

In Tron, Flynn’s identity disc is the master key to getting onto the Grid. In the far less exciting real world, FlynnID is the key to registering a Selenium node to Selenium Grid. Yesterday I released FlynnID 0.2, which changes … Continue reading →

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Announcing pytest-mozwebqa 1.0

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Finally I can announce that I have released version 1.0 of the pytest plugin used by Mozilla’s Web QA team! It’s been in use for several months now, but I’ve paid off some long standing technical debt, and now consider … Continue reading →

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Mozilla application downloader released

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dave

This week part of the Automation Tools team have gathered at the London Mozilla Space to work on migrating our Firefox automated UI tests to Mozmill 2.0. A considerable part of this work is converting our automation scripts repository, which … Continue reading →

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Test day + Meetup = Success!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Dave

Yesterday WebQA held a combined test day and meetup event in San Francisco. The idea was to bring everyone together to hack on our QA projects alongside us, and in return we would be able to share our own knowledge … Continue reading →

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