TestEngineering/Performance/Results

There are a variety of places where performance results are available, some of these can be queried directly, and others are dashboards built on top of those sources.

What should I use?

[TODO] for now just gathering ideas

• Does my patch affect performance?
  • Perfherder compare
• Did my push affect performance?
  • Perfherder compare
• How does Firefox compare against other browsers?
  • Firefox Performance Dashboard
• Are we meeting our goals?
• What performance tests are we running?
• What platforms are we running performance tests against?

What do we have?

Firefox Performance Dashboard

• Location: https://arewefastyet.com/
• Access: Public
• Audience: Managers, Engineers
• Documentation:
  [TODO] add link to documentation
• Source code: https://github.com/mozilla-frontend-infra/firefox-performance-dashboard
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/mozilla-frontend-infra/firefox-performance-dashboard/issues
• Contact: Dave Hunt [davehunt]

Metrics

[TODO] https://metrics.mozilla.com/protected/shiny/cdowhygelund/firefox-perf-telemetry-dashboard/

Perfherder

Perfherder is an interactive dashboard intended to allow monitoring and analysis of automated performance tests run against Mozilla products. Perfherder is part of the Treeherder project.

• Location: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html
• Access: Public
• Audience: Sheriffs, Engineers
• Documentation: EngineeringProductivity/Projects/Perfherder
• Source code: https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder
• Issue tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Tree%20Management&component=Perfherder&resolution=---
• Contact: Sarah Clements [sclements]

Alerts

[TODO] add description

• Location: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/alerts
• Documentation:
  [TODO]

Compare

[TODO] add description

• Location: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/comparechooser
• Documentation:
  [TODO]

Graphs

[TODO] add description

• Location: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html#/graphs
• Documentation:
  [TODO]

STMO

STMO is shorthand for sql.telemetry.mozilla.org, an installation of the excellent Re:dash data analysis and dashboarding tool that has been customized and configured for use with a number of the Firefox organisation's data sets.

• Location: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/
• Access: LDAP via SSO
• Audience: Sheriffs, Engineers, Managers
• Documentation: https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/tools/stmo.html
• Source code: https://github.com/mozilla/redash
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/mozilla/redash/issues
• Contact: #fx-metrics on Slack

Ad-hoc results

Before performance tests are fully automated and integrated into our pipeline, we often run manual or semi-automated tests. These results are often presented in ways that don't fit into our existing reporting structures, such as spreadsheets or documents. The following list of links serves as a repository for these results:

• Performance/Results
• Performance/Projects/Desktop/Testing

Please make sure when you add results to the above locations that the name or internal labeling is clear as to what was tested, the methods used, when the results were gathered, and anything else that may be useful.