Prerequisites

What?

To be able to run one or more performance tests you need to know which are those. The Performance Test Projects from Performance Test Engineering page contains the projects and their test list.

How?

There’s a tool called mach we use to run the tests, but you need to at least have phabricator and bugzilla accounts to be able to run on try.

Running tests

Where?

As long as you have mach installed and configured, you can run a performance test locally or on try. But, first command you need to run to get familiar with the complexity of mach is:

Locally

Running a performance test locally means that you need to have the proper setup for the specific testing framework and that the test will you the resources of you workstation to run the test. The mach command is:

To find out more info about the command arguments you can run:

or

On try

There’s the option on running a performance test on try (treeherder). Unlike locally, this option will run the test on an integration environment from mozilla, meaning that it won’t use any of your workstation resources to get the results.
The command is:

to get a nice UI to choose the tests to run:

or

to get a CLI on your console to choose the tests you want to run.

Also, you can do anytime

To find out about more try options.