This week Fresnel 0.5.0 was released and deployed to Jenkins. Highlighted changes:
- Add support for Mann–Whitney U test. [1] – https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223977, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann-Whitney_U_test - Switch regression detection from diffStdev to diffMannWhitney (for Paint Timing metrics). - Update Chromium from 73.0 to 77.0. - Enable Gzip for static files in web server behind Fresnel and Quibble. – https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/539427 I've written a visual guide for how to open Fresnel's performance report in your Chrome DevTools locally: 👉 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Fresnel#DevTools -- Timo Tijhof Change log and tracking task for Fresnel 0.5.0: https://github.com/wikimedia/fresnel/blob/0.5.0/CHANGELOG.md https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235195 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Timo Tijhof <krinklem...@gmail.com> Subject: Fresnel for MediaWiki (performance testing) Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:10 AM You may have noticed something called "mediawiki-fresnel" leaving messages on Gerrit patches for MediaWiki in the past few days, and wondering what it's all about. Allow me to introduce Fresnel! Fresnel is an automation tool for measuring and comparing client-side performance from web pages. Fresnel was developed over the past two quarters and is now ready for action. [1] [2] [3] To learn more about how to use it, what it offers, and how it works, check out: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Fresnel Some feature highlights: - ⏱ *Metrics* from Navigation Timing, Paint Timing, and Resource Timing APIs. - 📊 DevTools *Timeline* from CI recording can be viewed locally in Chrome. - 🖼 Recordings take a *screenshot* available in build artefacts. - 🔥 Scenarios perform a *warmup* and multiple runs for more stable metrics. -- Timo Tijhof [1] Launch task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133646 [2] Phabricator project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/fresnel/ [3] Task list: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/9w6EAEPPLQ72/#R _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
