http://alice.nodelman.net/blog infrequent updates and long delays Fri, 06 May 2011 23:36:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The addons performance testing system has been up and live for a few weeks now.  With so many more eyes then mine on the system I've seen a bunch of bug filings - which is awesome.  With each bug fixed the Talos system works better for both addons and for ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/addon-performance-testing-updates-and-future-work/ When I was writing the history of Tp tests for the Talos wiki page I realized that it is time to update Tp. Good to start with some background first.  Tp stands for 'test pageload'.  It is a basic browser test that cycles though a number of web pages.  The web ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/plans-for-tp5/ Bug 556530 - move Talos from cvs into Mercurial has landed and there is much rejoicing. The version of Talos in CVS will no longer be maintained. As part of the switchover I've updated Standalone Talos to V2. The only change in this version is that it is based ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/talos-in-hg-plus-new-version-of-standalone-talos/ The repository has been created, the buildbot patches have been r+ed and we are now so, so close to having a full switch over of Talos from CVS to Mercurial.  Talos has long lagged behind the rest of the Mozilla universe by stubbornly staying with CVS.  The main sticking point ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/talos-code-in-hg-almost/ V1.8 was unable to run the twinopen tests due to Bug 589194 - Make twinopen work when XUL is disabled.  The main Talos code was patched but the change wasn't ported to Standalone Talos.  V1.9 fixes that oversight. http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/standalone-talos-v19/ I recently put some time into updating the talos documentation. There are now sections describing how numbers are calculated, the history of the tp test along with updates to descriptions of tests, description of talos hardware, where to file bugs and so on. Any comments and suggestions on what needs ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/talos-documentation-updates/ I introduced a not-quite-an-error in 1.7 in that the tests were attempting to load test pages through localhost.  This wouldn't work unless you have a local web server up and working and with the correct document root set.  As Standalone Talos is designed to have minimal requirements I've updated it ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/update-to-standalone-talos-yet-again-now-171/ I've updated Standalone Talos to version 1.7 - available here.  It's been quite a while since a standalone talos update so there are several changes: new tscroll test updated version of dromaeo tests for group opacity perf ability to dump all output to stdout using the '--screen' option a bunch of orange fixes for failing ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/standalone-talos-v17/ I've come up with a proposed universal manifest format for unit tests based upon the many good comments and suggestions that I received after my last two blog posts. The simplest case is still very simple and the more complicated cases are now easier to read and understand. ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/universal-manifest-for-unit-tests-a-proposal/ There was a lot of good feedback from the post introducing the concept of universal manifest formats for all unit tests.  I want to continue the discussion based upon those questions/comments. Why aren't we just going to take one of our existing manifest formats and roll it out to the rest ... http://alice.nodelman.net/blog/post/universal-manifest-format-for-unit-tests-part-2/