MailNews:Start-up Time

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This page is very WIP I'm currently using it more as a dumping ground for ideas and thoughts

bug 462862 is the tracking bug for this work.

Aim

• To provide a continuous check within Mailnews and its sub-components for the time to start the following items:
  1. MailNews Main Window
  2. Address Book Window
  3. Compose/Write Window

These tests should also:

• Provide a consistent number from build to build where no source code has changed (as far as possible).
• Use a representative profile.

Method

Talos or Tinderbox, or both?

Results

• Want three different numbers.
• Should we sum as one on Tinderbox display and break down on Graphs?
• Can we do that, what do the graph servers support?

Manually Running Tests

Not possible at the moment

Build Set Up

Profile Set Up

Code Locations

Talos or tinderbox?

The files specific to mailnews testing will be stored in:

/mozilla/testing/mailnews/startup/

These files consist of:

• TBD

Pre-defined Profile

Initial Setup:

• One POP3 account (Mails TBD)
• One Identity
• One SMTP server defined (not used)

Future requirements/possibilities:

• One Address Book where PAB has ~1000 entries
• Large Message folders
• IMAP
• NNTP Server and subscribed newsgroup.

08/04/2008: prefs.js created via TB with the above settings, the first section is for preferences included in tinderbox, the second section is ones which don't currently get set.

user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", "id1");
user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account2");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account2");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server1");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.fullName", "Tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.smtpServer", "smtp1");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.useremail", "tinderbox@invalid.com");
user_pref("mail.identity.id1.valid", true);
user_pref("mail.root.none-rel", "[ProfD]Mail");
user_pref("mail.root.pop3-rel", "[ProfD]Mail");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory-rel", "[ProfD]Mail/Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.hostname", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.name", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.type", "none");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.userName", "nobody");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.check_new_mail", false);
user_pref("mail.server.server2.directory-rel", "[ProfD]Mail/tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.download_on_biff", true);
user_pref("mail.server.server2.hostname", "tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.login_at_startup", false);
user_pref("mail.server.server2.name", "tinderbox@invalid.com");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.type", "pop3");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.userName", "tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.smtp.defaultserver", "smtp1");
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.hostname", "tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.smtpserver.smtp1.username", "tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.smtpservers", "smtp1");
user_pref("mail.startup.enabledMailCheckOnce", true);
user_pref("mailnews.start_page_override.mstone", "1.9pre");

Preferences in generated profile, but not set:

user_pref("mail.root.none", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/Mail");
user_pref("mail.root.pop3", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/Mail");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/Mail/Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server2.directory", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/Mail/tinderbox");
user_pref("mail.attachment.store.version", 1);
user_pref("mail.folder.views.version", 1);
user_pref("mail.spam.version", 1);
user_pref("mailnews.quotingPrefs.version", 1);
user_pref("mailnews.ui.threadpane.version", 6);