669322 - Add an endurance test for memory use after closing a bunch of tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 669613

(Testing :: Talos, defect)

Description

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

One of the "metrics" of Firefox memory usage is "close a bunch of tabs and see how much memory usage goes down".  We should be measuring this as part of Talos.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Talos (Tp) currently doesn't open a lot of tabs at once. So let's make this an endurance test instead. (Or did we specifically want to use the Talos page set?)

Comment 2

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

The particular pageset used doesn't really matter to me as long as it's representative of the web.

Of course, it seems like a good idea to curate as few pagesets as possible ...

Comment 3

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

I had bits and pieces of a test that would open each page of tp into a separate tab and then close them - is that the sort of thing that you are looking for?

I believe that the missing components would be in determining the memory footprint change over the course of the test.

Comment 4

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

This would be covered by the 'membuster' endurance test. See bug 669613.