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Copy the pageloader from CVS and into a bundle format (single chrome.manifest).
| author | Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin@smedbergs.us> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:57:39 -0400 |
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| 1 Pageload Test Component | |
| 2 ======================= | |
| 3 | |
| 4 Usage: | |
| 5 | |
| 6 ./firefox -tp file:///path/to/manifest.txt [-tpargs...] | |
| 7 | |
| 8 See ./firefox -help for other arguments. | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 Manifest file format | |
| 12 ==================== | |
| 13 | |
| 14 Comments in the manifest file start with a #. Each line may be: | |
| 15 | |
| 16 * a URL (absolute or relative to the manifest) | |
| 17 | |
| 18 This URL is added to the list of tests. | |
| 19 | |
| 20 * one or more flags, followed by whitespace, followed by a URL | |
| 21 | |
| 22 The only flag supported currently is '%', which indicates that | |
| 23 a test will do its own timing. (See Self-timing Tests below.) | |
| 24 | |
| 25 * "include" followed by whitespace, followed by a URL | |
| 26 | |
| 27 Parse the given manifest file. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 Self-timing Tests | |
| 30 ================= | |
| 31 | |
| 32 Most timing tests are interested in timing how long it takes the page | |
| 33 to load; that is, from the start of page loading until the 'load' | |
| 34 event is dispatched. By default, this is what the pageloader will | |
| 35 time. However, if a test URL has the % flag, the test is expected to | |
| 36 report its own timing. For this purpose, the pageloader will provide | |
| 37 a function named "tpRecordTime" in the test's global object that it | |
| 38 should call once it has performed whatever timing it wants to do. | |
| 39 The given value will be used as the timing result for this test. | |
| 40 | |
| 41 Output format | |
| 42 ============= | |
| 43 | |
| 44 The result is a dump to stdout via dump() -- | |
| 45 browser.dom.window.dump.enabled must be set to true in the profile. A | |
| 46 number of output formats can be specified via the -tpformat command | |
| 47 line option, currently 'js', 'text', and 'tinderbox' are supported. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 Sample 'js' format output: | |
| 50 | |
| 51 ([({page:"1280x1024-PNG/index.html", value:133, stddev:20.049937655763422}),({page:"bugzilla.mozilla.org/index.html", value:233, stddev:36.66606060105176}),({page:"espn.go.com/index.html", value:117.6, stddev:1.2}),({page:"home.netscape.com/index.html", value:97.8, stddev:47.41898354035017}),]) | |
| 52 | |
| 53 Sample 'text' format output: | |
| 54 | |
| 55 ============================================================ | |
| 56 Page mean stdd min max raw | |
| 57 0 1280x1024-PNG/index.html 133 20 121 297 297,173,122,121,124,125 | |
| 58 1 bugzilla.mozilla.org/index.html 233 37 192 395 395,273,223,192,198,279 | |
| 59 2 espn.go.com/index.html 118 1 116 254 254,117,116,119,119,117 | |
| 60 3 home.netscape.com/index.html 98 47 3 124 3,121,120,124,124,121 | |
| 61 ============================================================ | |
| 62 | |
| 63 Sample 'tinderbox' format output: | |
| 64 | |
| 65 __start_tp_report | |
| 66 _x_x_mozilla_page_load,778.5,NaN,NaN | |
| 67 _x_x_mozilla_page_load_details,avgmedian|778.5|average|766.75|minimum|NaN|maximum|NaN|stddev|NaN|0;file:///c:/proj/mozilla-cvs/perf/tp2/base/www.cnn.com/index.html;778.5;766.75;722;1027;1027;788;777;722;780|... | |
| 68 __end_tp_report | |
| 69 | |
| 70 Note that the minimum, maximum, stddev are not calculated; they're | |
| 71 always reported as NaN. (They were the minimum and maximum values of | |
| 72 any sampled value, and the standard deviation across all sampled | |
| 73 values -- not very useful.) | |
| 74 | |
| 75 TODO | |
| 76 ==== | |
| 77 | |
| 78 * Command line option to choose whether to run with or without browser chrome. Currently runs without. | |
| 79 | |
| 80 * Tinderbox-dropping style output | |
| 81 * better yet would be to teach tinderbox about JSON |