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Conditioned Profile
===================
This project provides a command-line tool that is used to generate and maintain
a collection of Gecko profiles.
Unlike testing/profiles, the **conditioned profiles** are a collection of full
Gecko profiles that are dynamically updated every day.
Each profile is created or updated using a **scenario** and a
**customization**, and eventually uploaded as an artifact in TaskCluster.
The goal of the project is to build a collection of profiles that we can use in
our performance or functional tests instead of the empty profile that we
usually create on the fly with **mozprofile**.
Having a collection of realistic profiles we can use when running some tests
gives us the ability to check the impact of user profiles on page loads or
other tests.
A full cycle of how this tool is used in Taskcluster looks like this:
For each combination of scenario, customization and platform:
- grabs an existing profile in Taskcluster
- browses the web using the scenario, via the WebDriver client
- recreates a tarball with the updated profile
- uploads it as an index artifact into TaskCluster - maintains a changelog of each change
It's based on the Arsenic webdriver client https://github.com/HDE/arsenic
A client that wants to use a profile can download it from the indexed artifacts
by using a simple HTTP client or the provided client in **condprof.client**.
Scenario
========
Scenarii are coroutines registered under a unique name in condprof/scenarii.
They get a **session** object and some **options**.
The scenario can do whatever it wants with the browser, through the session
instance.
See Arsenic's `API documentation <https://arsenic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/session.html>`_ for the session class.
Adding a new scenario is done by adding a module in condprof/scenarii/
and register it in condprof/scenarii/__init__.py
Customization
=============
A customization is a configuration file that can be used to set some
prefs in the browser and install some webextensions.
Customizations are JSON files registered into condprof/customizations,
and they provide four keys:
- **name**: the name of the customization
- **addons**: a mapping of add-ons to install.
- **prefs**: a mapping of prefs to set
- **scenario**: a mapping of options to pass to a specific scenario
In the example below, we install uBlock, set a pref, and pass the
**max_urls** option to the **heavy** scenario.
{
"name": "intermediate",
"addons":{
"uBlock":"https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3361355/ublock_origin-1.21.2-an+fx.xpi"
},
"prefs":{
"accessibility.tabfocus": 9
},
"scenario": {
"heavy": {"max_urls": 10}
}
}
Getting conditioned profiles
============================
Unlike the profile creator, the client is Python 2 and 3 compatible.
You can grab a conditioned profile using the client API::
>>> from condprof.client import get_profile
>>> get_profile(".", "win64", "settled", "default")
or the **cp-client** script that gets install when you run the
conditioned profile installer.
Running locally
===============
Unfortunately, we can't hook the conditioned profile builder into mach
at this point. We need to wait for everything in the tree to be fully
Python 3 compatible.
Until then, if you want to build profiles locally, to try out one
of your scenario for instance, you can install a local Python 3
virtual env and use the script from there.
Get a mozilla-central source clone and do the following::
$ cd testing/condprofile
$ virtualenv .
From there you can trigger profiles creation using **bin/cp-creator**.