1550745 - Remove "raptor-" prefix from Raptor test names

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: Raptor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ionuț Goldan [:igoldan]]

All of our Raptor tests start with the raptor- prefix.
This is redundant, because no matter their name, all of them are grouped under the same Raptor framework.

Let's drop the prefix.

Comment 1

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

+1 thanks Ionut

Comment 2

[Florin Strugariu [:Bebe]]

This is a easy fix.

:igoldan will this affect the way data is submitted to perfherder?
Will we keep the historical reference if we make this change?

Comment 3

[Ionuț Goldan [:igoldan]]

(In reply to Florin Strugariu [:Bebe] (needinfo me) from comment #2)

This is a easy fix.

:igoldan will this affect the way data is submitted to perfherder?
Will we keep the historical reference if we make this change?

This will disconnect the signatures. We will retain the old data, but the
new data will appear as originating from a whole new test.

As Perf sheriffs, we'll be blind on Raptor alerts for half a day, until Perfherder
gains enough data to identify regression/improvement patterns again.

Comment 4

[Florin Strugariu [:Bebe]]

:davehunt would this be acceptable?

Comment 5

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

(In reply to Florin Strugariu [:Bebe] (needinfo me) from comment #4)

:davehunt would this be acceptable?

This will potentially also impact any dashboard that presents raptor test results, and any queries that people may have. Perhaps it would be better to phase out the prefix by ensuring there is no code within raptor that depends on it, allowing any new tests to omit it. For presentation in tools such as Perfherder, we could simply strip the prefix for any tests that carry it.

Comment 6

[Ionuț Goldan [:igoldan]]

I believe this issue will be addressed by bug 1583539.

Comment 7

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

The browsertime tests do not have the "raptor-" prefix, and we're planning to migrate all tests to browsertime.