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 = About =
-Perfherder is a dashboard intended to allow monitoring and analysis of performance tests run against Mozilla products (currently Firefox and Firefox for Android).
+Perfherder is a dashboard intended to allow monitoring and analysis of automated performance tests run against Mozilla products (currently Firefox and Firefox for Android).
 Perfherder is part of the [[EngineeringProductivity/Projects/Treeherder|Treeherder]] project.
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 * Developers (:wlach, :jmaher)
 * Others (:avih)
-= Problem =
-Mozilla generates a lot of data from performance tests and other metrics collected during the process of development.  Most of this data is useful to see on a graph and look for trends over time.  It becomes difficult to understand the data when there is a lot and we need different tools for different levels of data.
-In some cases we want a graphical display, but understanding all the data points for a given change to the codebase might be better represented in a table summary.  Most of the time these tools are useful for investigating specific issues, which means that we need tools to analyze the data and report regressions automatically.
 = Goals =