Performance Variance Evaluation on Mozilla Firefox

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Title

Performance Variance Evaluation on Mozilla Firefox

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Description

In order to evaluate software performance and find regressions, many developers use automated performance tests. However, the test results often contain a certain amount of noise that is not caused by actual performance changes in the programs. They are instead caused by external factors like operating system decisions or unexpected non-determinisms inside the programs. This makes interpreting the test results hard since results that differ from previous results cannot easily be attributed to...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2012

Creator

Larres, Jan

URL

https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Performance_Variance_Evaluation_on_Mozilla_Firefox/16997605

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Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified / Performance measurement / Noise / Automated testing / School: School of Engineering and Computer Science / Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified / Marsden: 280302 Software Engineering / Degree Discipline: Computer Science / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Science

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