Tag 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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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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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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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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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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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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