More realistic endurance test results
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… Read More »More realistic endurance test results
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Q3/2011 in review
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… Read More »Q3/2011 in review
Running the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test
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… Read More »Running the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test
Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities
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’… Read More »Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities
Endurance tests demonstrate Firefox’s memory usage improvements
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… Read More »Endurance tests demonstrate Firefox’s memory usage improvements
Micro-iterations in Endurance Tests
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… Read More »Micro-iterations in Endurance Tests
Endurance Tests in Firefox 6
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,… Read More »Endurance Tests in Firefox 6
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… Read More »Running endurance tests with Mozmill Crowd
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… Read More »Endurance Results from Test Day
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… Read More »Introducing Firefox Endurance Testing