Tag Archives: mozmill

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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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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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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Endurance Tests in Firefox 6

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Dave

One of the features of the upcoming Firefox 6 is an improvement to the handling and reporting of memory resources. As you can probably imagine, this is very applicable to the endurance tests project. As a result of the changes, … Continue reading →

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Running the Selenium IDE Mozmill tests

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Dave

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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Testing Selenium IDE with Mozmill

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Dave

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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