Category Archives: Eideticker

Proof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS

Posted on May 6, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] I just put up a proof of concept Eideticker dashboard for FirefoxOS here. Right now it has two days worth of data, manually sampled from … Continue reading →

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Actual useful FirefoxOS Eideticker results at last

Posted on April 22, 2013 by William Lachance

Another update on getting Eideticker working with FirefoxOS. Once again this is sort of high-level, looking forward to writing something more in-depth soon now that we have the basics working. I finally got the last kinks out of the rig … 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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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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Finding a camera for Eideticker

Posted on February 19, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Ok, so as I mentioned last time I’ve been looking into making Eideticker work for devices without native HDMI output by capturing their output with … Continue reading →

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Eideticker for FirefoxOS

Posted on February 1, 2013 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Here’s a long overdue update on where we’re at with Eideticker for FirefoxOS. While we’ve had a good amount of success getting useful, actionable data … Continue reading →

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More Eideticker happenings: Profiling and startup testing

Posted on September 13, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Just wanted to give some updates on a few new Eideticker features which have landed in the past week. Profiling support While Eideticker is a … Continue reading →

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Oh hai, I upergaded yer Eideticker

Posted on September 5, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] More on this to come, but just a quick note that the client-side URL schema for the Eideticker dashboard has been changed, as we now … Continue reading →

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The evolution of simulating events in Eideticker: from monkeys to orangutans

Posted on July 10, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] I just merged a new approach I’ve been using to simulate touch events into the master branch of Eideticker called Orangutan. As I’ve mentioned before, … Continue reading →

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Mobile Firefox: Measuring How a Browser Feels

Posted on June 26, 2012 by William Lachance

A while back, I began work on a new test framework for mobile browsers called Eideticker, which aims to benchmark browsers by capturing them on HMDI video, then running image analysis on the result. I wrote about this in a … Continue reading →

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