Category Archives: Android

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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Using the dm utility to interact with Android or FirefoxOS devices

Posted on October 18, 2012 by William Lachance

I promised a few people I’d blog about this, so here you go. To help with the business of making Android or FirefoxOS devices do our bidding, Mozilla Automation & Tools developed a Python library called mozdevice which allows you … Continue reading →

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Say hello to frof

Posted on September 25, 2012 by William Lachance

Inspired by the work I’d been doing with Benoit Girard to integrate the Firefox Profiler with Eideticker, I decided to create an easy-to-use python script to help with gathering profiles on Fennec, which I call frof. Frof pretty considerably reduces … Continue reading →

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Launching random web browsers on Android

Posted on May 4, 2012 by William Lachance

Ok, this is somewhat mundane, but I’ve already had to do it twice (and helped someone do something similar on #mobile), so I figured I might as well blog about it for posterity. For various automation tasks (notably the Eideticker … Continue reading →

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An even better way of taking screenshots on Android

Posted on April 3, 2012 by William Lachance

Just thought I’d mention this because I found it handy. A while back AaronMT wrote up some clever instructions on taking Android screenshots by dumping the contents of ‘/dev/fb0′ and running ffmpeg on the results. This is useful, but you … Continue reading →

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Playing with pandas

Posted on February 10, 2012 by William Lachance

For the last few days I’ve been experimenting with getting a Pandaboard running Android 4.0, continuing the work that Clint Talbert started in the fall to get these boards for use as a replacement for the Tegra in Mozilla’s android … Continue reading →

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