Monthly Archives: March 2013

A visit to the Montreal Zen Center

Posted on March 24, 2013 by William Lachance

So for a bit of a departure from the usual technical content, a personal anecdote. I went to the Montreal Zen Center today for a workshop, which was a most illuminating experience. I’d been pretty fascinated with the idea of … Continue reading →

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Eideticker: Limitations in cross-browser performance testing

Posted on March 20, 2013 by William Lachance

Last summer I wrote a bit about using Eideticker to measure the relative performance of Firefox for Android versus other browsers (Chrome, stock, etc.). At the time I was pretty optimistic about Eideticker’s usefulness as a truly “objective” measure of … Continue reading →

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Documentation for mozdevice

Posted on March 11, 2013 by William Lachance

Just wanted to give a quick heads up that as part of the ateam’s ongoing effort to improve the documentation of our automated testing infrastructure, we now have online documentation for mozdevice, the python library we use for interacting with … Continue reading →

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Follow up on “Finding a Camera for Eideticker”

Posted on March 8, 2013 by William Lachance

Quick update on my last post about finding some kind of camera suitable for use in automated performance testing of fennec and b2g with eideticker. Shortly after I wrote that, I found out about a company called Point Grey Research … Continue reading →

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