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Speed up Mozilla's builds by letting them use MSVC with distcc on Windows.
== Functional Testing ==
Testing performed from a user's perspective. Includes the running and writing of test cases in [http://litmus.mozilla.org Litmus], filing and tracking bugs through [bugzilla.mozilla.org bugzilla], stress-testing and exploratory debugging. This project requires a dedication to breaking software in an organized and repeatable fashion. There is no such thing as "the wrong way" to use software and the functional tester is adept at abusing a system in previously-unknown ways.
Reference: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team.
== Unit Testing ==
Programmatic testing of software. The participant will take a section of code and write unit tests for it, fully testing all aspects of the code. This may require the creation of a unit testing framework and interfacing with other developers who know a particular module or service. The programmer will be adept at finding boundary cases and creating tests that deliberately break the software through code. These may lead to the creation of bugs in [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org bugzilla].
Reference: Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team.
== Performance Testing ==
Extending the performance tookit and tinderbox reporting system. The project begins with a framework for testing pageloads and startup times in Win32. The successful completion of this project will see this framework develop into a more robust system complete with processor-timing information and graphing. Memory analysis and samples during runs would also be beneficial. Further success or subprojects could include porting the system Linux and OS X platforms.
Reference: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346785 Bug 346785]. Work with Mozilla's Rob Campbell and Jay Patel from the QA Team.
