Category Archives: QMO

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 yourself. Currently I run these manually as needed to ensure that the nightly Firefox builds … Continue reading

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London Tester Gathering with Mozilla

Last week several members of the Mozilla QA team were in London, and we took advantage of this by sponsoring one of the regular London Tester Gatherings. We were really keen on keeping it a social/networking event, but also really … Continue reading

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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 working on a new suite of tests for the Selenium IDE extension in the hope … Continue reading

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Running endurance tests with Mozmill Crowd

Ahead of our Mozmill Crowd testday last Friday we made some changes to the endurance tests, including enabling endurance test run within Mozmill Crowd! Running the endurance tests is now even easier – simply install the Mozmill Crowd extension, and … Continue reading

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Endurance Results from Test Day

Today I finally finished reviewing the hundreds (yes, hundreds!) of endurance reports that were submitted on our Firefox 4 add-ons test day last Friday and on the days following. It was amazing to see so many reports coming in, and … Continue reading

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Automated Firefox tests with add-ons installed

Mozmill has a feature that allows the tester to install an add-on during the test run. Until recently this was only used by one of our automated testruns, which was for specifically testing the installed add-on rather than Firefox. With … Continue reading

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Introducing Firefox Endurance Testing

Since late last year I have been working on a prototype of an Endurance Testing project for Firefox. The idea is to use our existing Mozmill framework for automating UI testing of Firefox to write tests that stress and strain … Continue reading

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I’m (sort of) going to Selenium Conference 2011!

For a long time now I’ve been chasing the idea of a conference for Selenium. It probably started when I heard about the San Francisco Selenium users meetup group, and was certainly on my mind when I started the London … Continue reading

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Mozilla in London for Selenium Meetup #3

On Wednesday, the third London Selenium meetup went ahead. Attendance was good considering there was a London Underground strike in action, however it had clearly made an impact. I arrived at midday and enjoyed a chilled out afternoon at Google’s … Continue reading

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