362758 - Need intl versions of Tp.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See thread at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_frm/thread/dee48dc1331976a3/12df9b50251ae60e?lnk=raot#12df9b50251ae60e

The first post there sort of sums up what we need; the second post points to at least a starting point for the tests.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that I think this should block 1.9, but there's no such flag here...

Comment 2

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

There is a web page grabber/cleaner tool (almost) checked in:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362152

I also have a script that can scrape Alexa for web page URLs.  I used it to grab the top 500 pages worldwide (including non-English sites)- which I then grabbed with the grabber/cleaner tool.  International sets (ie, without any English sites) could be created through looking at Alexa listings by country.

There is still the problem of getting this integrated into a Tp test.  I'm working to make it simpler to drop new page sets into the Python testing framework (http://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaQualityAssurance:Performance_Testing).

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

When I brought this up at the summit last month Alice pointed out that it requires ensuring that the boxes running the tests have necessary fonts installed. Otherwise we will just be timing how long it takes to render strings of ??????s.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Makes sense... and in fact, I'd be happy with lots of fonts installed for another reason -- we have lots of perf bugs with that.  ;)

Comment 5

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

I've noticed improvement in the ?????s issue.  Using a wget extension to parse css (written by luser) I'm pulling in more font information.  At least on my mac, I'm not really seeing broken font info anymore.  I'll have to load on Windows to see if this would be true there as well.

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 357731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Vlad said in bug 357731 that he has an international pageset that he uses for Trender.

Comment 8

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Sorry, my previous comment was confused.  Yes, the addition of the css parsing wget is now pulling in more font information - but you still need the correct font sets installed to display anything other than ?????s.

This then becomes a combination of two tasks: 
- getting the page collection that you want
- getting a test box/vm with the fonts that you need pre-installed

Comment 9

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is probably WFM or FIXED now, since we have intl pages in the Tp2 pageset, right?

Comment 10

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Tp3 does.