Are unix based Test Machines possible for testing with Chrome only?

[umaar]

I saw Michael Klepikov at the Selenium conference recently and he gave an awesome demo of WebPagetest. One thing which I noticed, something which I've wanted to do in the past but have not known how, is using a non-Windows based Test Machine.

The documentation for a private instance of WebPagetest only gives Windows as an example.

Operating systems I'd be interested in using include Ubuntu, Mac OS X & CentOS - would it be possible to use one of these as a test machine (I only need to test on the Chrome browser).

On another note, in regards to the iOS and Android agents in the SVN repository, is there any documentation for how to get these set up? Would be fun to try them out!

Thanks

[pmeenan]

Not yet. Michael has some cross-platform work he is doing for WebPagetest that will let us run agents on any platform that has node.js support and Chrome (probably later in the year before it is ready for prime time).

The iOS and Android agents are a work in progress. We're actually merging our code into the Mobitest agents (which are also under a BSD license and already integrate with WebPagetest). - http://code.google.com/p/mobitest-agent/

The mobitest agents have been integrated with WPT for over a year and have a lot of field time on them so we were thrilled that Akamai open-sourced them.

[andydavies]

(04-18-2012 05:17 AM)pmeenan Wrote:  Not yet. Michael has some cross-platform work he is doing for WebPagetest that will let us run agents on any platform that has node.js support and Chrome (probably later in the year before it is ready for prime time).

I guess that means OS X support will arrive too (for Chrome at least)

[umaar]

Thank you for the update.

Decided to give the mobitest agents ago, I can't get the Android agent working properly, I believe there's a bug which I've filed here: http://code.google.com/p/mobitest-agent/...etail?id=2

As for the iPhone agent, I'm nearly there, got it compiling and responding to a hosted WebPagetest, there are a few bugs I've found with the agent.

Another problem I had was getting the video feature to work, a valid film-strip is being presented and ffmpeg is in the Path (on a CentOS box) but no videos appear, just get the message "Your video will be available shortly. Please wait..." which does not appear to change. Having a Google around, I noticed a solution for Windows based agents was to install avisynth, are there any similar steps like this which need to be carried out for iPhone agents?

Thanks for great work done with WebPagetest!

[pmeenan]

Yeah, that's kind of a hole right now that I haven't fixed. Right now videos can only be rendered on Windows agents. I have a TO-DO item to add support for server-side rendering which will also make rendering videos a lot faster.

[pmeenan]

btw, to render videos you just need A windows agent available that connects to the server and it can render any videos for any agent. One possible solution is to just use a "tiny" EC2 instance to do video rendering until a completely windows-free solution is available.