368610 - mozilla/testing/performance Linux port

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: test harness Linux port

I have ported the test harness that lives in mozilla/testing/performance to Linux.

Here's a quick summary of the changes:
ffprocess.py - All of the win32ext code was replaced with standard python 2.4 modules. Specifically, os, signal, subprocess, and select.
ffprofile.py - Unchanged.
paths.py - Removed Windows specific variables and updated the default paths.
run_tests.py - Update configuration file code -- some versions of syck load from a file, others load from a string.
tp.py - Replaced all win32pdh code with a custom performance measurement class.
ts.py - Unchanged.
README.txt - Updated to reflect new requirements.

Comment 1

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

This extension breaks the existing functionality of the framework on windows.  

We'll need to either create a new directory that is linux specific - which would have the down side of resulting in a lot of code duplication.  Otherwise we'll have to determine a method of wrapping the OS specific code into a generic library that can be called by tp.py/ts.py/run_tests.py/etc.

rhelmer: do you have any examples of similar cross platform code and how it handles this sort of problem?  I would really prefer to abstract out the operating system differences.

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Isn't this ported already? :)