Firefox Performance Testing Lab Fall 2010

Goal

The goal of this lab is twofold. First, to provide students with a real-world experience of working collaboratively in an open community; and second, to work on a cutting-edge, but manageable project within the Mozilla community.

Objective

To conduct A/B performance tests between nightly builds of Firefox and Chrome, in order to identify performance bottlenecks in Firefox. Also, to profile and file bugs in order to fix these issues.

Resources

• Chrome Experiments
• Firefox (i.e., Minefield) nightly builds
• Chrome (i.e., Chromium) nightly builds
• Example performance bug