Automated Firefox XP debug unit tests are now live

As of this morning, we now have automated debug unit tests for Windows XP :)

TBPL showing the row for XP debug unit tests

We now have all desktop platforms at parity.



This change was enabled in bug 614955 and again many thanks goes to ted for helping when I was almost loosing it.

Kudos goes to philor for checking that the results of the test runs were good.

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Reftests and xpcshell test suites run slow on Windows 7 machines

I previously blogged about xpcshell being extremely slow on Windows 7 and jimm was able to fix something which significantly reduced the time it took. In that post I compared two different operating systems one on Mac minis and the other on a mix of VMs and IX fast hardware machines.

This time I am comparing Windows XP against Windows 7 running on the same base hardware (Mac minis - dual core 2.26GHz CPU). The comparison shows that the xpchsell and reftests test suites run significantly slower on Windows 7 than Windows XP.

Comparison of performance and test suites between Windows XP and Windows 7

If you believe you can give a hand write a comment on bug 617503.

Link to raw data.

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XP optimized unit tests enabled for Minefield

Last week we started to run unit tests on Windows XP for every Minefield build we generate.
This change excludes the branches mozilla-1.9.1 and mozilla-1.9.2 where we will still be running them on Win 2003 machines.

There are several permanent oranges that philor and dholbert have filed.
All of them are just affecting the reftests suite, hence, it is hidden until they all are tackled.
Once everything is perma-orange-free we will discontinue running unit tests on Windows 2003 machines as it will improve wait times on the builder machines.

We can now see XP unit tests on tbpl.mozilla.org

Please if you find any new permanent oranges feel free to file them and add them under:

• Bug 614955 - Enable unit tests on WinXP machines

 Big thanks (again) to philor and dholbert for filling the known bugs.

 

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