Category Archives: Mozilla

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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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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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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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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Catching problems early with python

Posted on October 15, 2012 by William Lachance

Just a few quick notes on how to avoid a class of errors I’ve been seeing in Mozilla’s automation over the last year. Since python interprets code dynamically, it’s pretty easy for problems like undefined variables to slip through, especially … 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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