Webdev:Cesium

This is a page to track the new project for automating ySlow tests, codenamed 'Cesium', after the element used in atomic clocks.

Goals

• Run ySlow automatically
• Collect the beacon information that ySlow sends
• Display the information in graph form
• Make the data accessible via APIs
• Easily configurable (via web UI) and installable
• Handle multiple websites
• Documentation for API and installation

Roadmap

TBD -- 1.0

• User accounts
• Redesign
• API

07/24/2009 -- 0.2

• Making Cesium easier to install and configure
• Run Firefox headlessly

===07/10/2009=== -- 0.1.1

• minor bug fix that caused Firefox to start improperly and not load any webpages

===07/09/2009=== -- 0.1

• run yslow automatically
• collect the information
• make it accessible
• display it

Components

• Headless FF instance
• Processor
• UI
• API

Communication

• #cesium on IRC

Contribute

• svn.mozilla.org/projects/cesium
• File a bug
• Bug list

API

• Need API docs!

Installation

• View the README in SVN

Architecture Draft

Frontend Mockups

• Dashboard
• Site List
• Site Info
• Site Edit
• Page List
• Test Run List
• High Fidelity Homepage
• High Fidelity Site page