Tomcat's Blog

I have been spending more time recently working on automated top site testing using the Sisyphus framework to spider the top 1.000.000 sites according to Alexa. This helps me find pages which cause Firefox to crash, leak or assert.

Using Jesse Ruderman’s Lithium test case reduction tool, I can create reduced test cases and file bugs for each of the crashes, leaks and assertions I find.

I  like doing the top site testing because it helps make Firefox an even better browser than it is already.

Also a very BIG Thank YOU to Bob Clary and Jesse Ruderman for all the help i got on running this tests and reducing testcases!

You can read more about top site testing here.

– Tomcat

so Rey has tagged me (thanks 😉 and here are the rules

1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

7 Facts:

1. Before getting lost in the IT World I was trained from 1994 – 1997 as a bank official at a local German Savings Bank
2. My Nickname has nothing to do with the Tomcat Server 🙂 Its from the F-14 “Tomcat” U.S. Navy Plane  and i have actually visited a Tomcat on Board the USS Hornet
3. I like skiing, i learned this about 25 years ago and practiced this almost every year (also happy to live now in a skiing area 🙂
4. Moved around in Germany so far 14 times (12 times when i was a kid). So i have no kind of German Accent
5. Do you remember the Movie “The Great Escape” ? The famous motorbike sequence was actually filmed in the town where i live now !
6. I like strategic games, when i have time, i play games like “World in Conflict” online.
7. And if possible i visit the home matches from the local Ice hockey Team EV Pfronten Falcons – its not the NHL, but it makes a lot of fun to visit the Games ! GO FALCON’S !

Now finally my seven victims:

Stephen Donner – the WebMonster !

William quiviger – thanks again for a great Event in Barcelona !

Ted Mielczarek – i think the first Mozillian that i meet on my first onsite

Mike Morgan– Morgamic !

John O’Duinn – Because i still remember the night when we were working on a Lotus Notes Server 🙂

Justin Fitzhugh – because a great time during the Firefox Summit !

Jay Patel – the QA and now Marketing Rockstar !