Firefox Performance Testing : A Python framework for Windows
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Project Name
Firefox Performance Testing : A Python framework for Windows
Project Description
The goal of this project is to:
- get the current framework up and running to help work with others
- get the framework running in an automated fashion
- help with the creation and execution of new tests
- work to upgrade the framework to work with a mozilla graph server
- work with the mozilla community and contribute to an open source project
From this project, you will:
- learn python
- learn about white box testing methodologies
- work with an open source community
- more generally learn about the functioning of QA in an open source community
This will benefit you in the future when presented with a new program, you'll be able to give an idea of how to approach testing - to give adequate coverage and be able to provide some metric of program stability and functionality
Note: This is NOT the typical mundane black box testing
Project Leader(s)
Project Contributor(s)
Ben Hearsum (bhearsum)
- Helped with the debugging process for report.py, run_tests.py and ts.py
Project Details
This is different from Tinderbox. Two major differences are:
- First, it doesn't build, it just runs the performance test given a path to the executable. This is helpful if you're testing the performance of an extension or a build from another server. (You could build on a fast server, and then run performance tests on a machine with low memory).
- Second, it measures performance characteristics while it's running the pageload tests--you can track cpu speed, memory, or any of the other counters listed here.
Project News
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Performance tests didn't run sucessfully.
- There weren't any results generated in the extension_perf_testing\base_profile and extension_perf_reports folders.
- Output after the performance tests were run:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\proj\mozilla\testing\performance\win32\run_tests.py", line 129, in ?
test_file(sys.argv[i])
File "C:\proj\mozilla\testing\performance\win32\run_tests.py", line 122, in te
st_file
TP_RESOLUTION)
File "C:\proj\mozilla\testing\performance\win32\report.py", line 152, in Gener
ateReport
mean = mean / len(ts_times[i])
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Understand further the approach to testing with the Python framework
Monday, September 25, 2006
Will be working on a resolution with alice to get the results generated in the extension_perf_testing\base_profile and extension_perf_reports folders.
Project Events
Bon Echo Community Test Day
- Friday, September 22, 2006, from 7am - 5pm PDT
