Mozilla
Henrik Skupin
To help the team around the Memshrink project Mozilla QA Automation Services has released Mozmill Crowd 0.1.4. In this version the only changes which affect the extension itself are additions for the Endurance test-run, which allow users to specify the number of entities and if Firefox has to be restarted in-between each test. We also […] Continue reading
Dave Hunt
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 → Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
On Friday Mozmill 1.5.4 has been finally released, including a lot of bug fixes and a couple of new features. This time it has been taken a bit longer as usual to get the release out, but the A-team is also working kinda hard on the Mozmill 2 code, where we expect a preview release […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
For a long time, exactly since January 29th in 2010, the Mozilla QA team is running daily Mozmill tests to prove the functionality of Firefox and the update system across all supported platforms and release branches. With those tests we were able to find a couple of regressions, which then were fixed before the next […] Continue reading
Dave Hunt
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 → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
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 → Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
QA Automation Services is happy to announce that Mozmill Crowd 0.1.3 has been released. With this minor release Mozmill Crowd now got its own branding for the extension itself, and on AMO. Thanks goes to Tara Shahian and her team for their support in creating the icon. We think it looks brilliant. What do you […] Continue reading
Henrik Skupin
As blogged by Release Engineering last week the Firefox 3.5 builds have been stopped. That means there are no more daily nightly builds available Mozilla QA will have to test with Mozmill. According to this action we also have turned off our daily test-runs for the latest Firefox 3.5.x builds on all platforms. At the […] Continue reading
Dave Hunt
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 → Continue reading
Dave Hunt
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 → Continue reading