Hello lists, As briefly mentioned at the Gaia weekly meeting, Raptor has completed its major refactoring to turn the tool into a more generic CLI tool. This means that the tool you are familiar with that was bundled with Gaia will eventually no longer be bundled. Instead, you can now install Raptor as a standalone tool via:
npm install -g @mozilla/raptor --- Some major highlights: Marionette.js is now integrated into Raptor. This means less reliance on custom profiles and elimination of the custom homescreen to run Raptor, and a new `make raptor` command will be landing soon to reflect this. This also means that you will be able to write custom performance tests by using Marionette to trigger user action which would cause your performance.measure()s to be hit. By switching to Marionette, we were able to make application launching a bit smarter, and this allow us to run performance tests against more apps, including in theory third-party apps and hosted apps. This hasn't been extensively tested yet, so if you have a third-party or hosted app you would like to performance test, reach out to me and I will assist with any issues. Raptor being a standalone CLI tool now, it has a different command-line syntax. Upon installation, you should be able to get some quick information via `raptor --help`. At the moment the tool exposes a single command, test, and you can see some of the options available with `raptor test --help`. The docs on the new syntax at the command line, as well as how to get started writing tests can all be found on MDN [1]. We now trigger a memory minimization/GC before capturing memory results. This results in much more accurate and less varied memory results. --- The Gaia-integrated version of Raptor has not yet been removed as we are still working to migrate over our automation to use the new tool. I expect that to happen in the next week or so. As always, if you have any questions or need any assistance, feel free to reach out or ping me in the #raptor room. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Automated_testing/Raptor Thanks! Eli Perelman
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