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Attendees
- Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)
- Brad Spry (UNC Charlotte)
- Bethany Seeger (Amherst College)
- Nick Ruest
- James R. Griffin III
Terry Reese - Andy Wagner...
- Unknown User (acoburn)
Agenda
- We have consensus on the test plans
- Next step: execute via JMeter (early Fedora example)
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Minutes
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Consensus on
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Test Plans
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Achieved consensus, 5 people have liked the Page)
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JMeter Test Implementation
- Other actions is to put together the quite simplest JMeter tests
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- (Just creating default containers)
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- (More about the mechanics about dealing with JMeter)
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Terry Reese not available
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- Some attendees of the calls have expressed some interest in the past
- Thus far, haven't heard from anyone
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- regarding implementation
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Utility within the Ongoing Development of Fedora
Some changes going on with the underlying Fedora implementation stack
- Modeshape is undergoing a major release next year
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- Discussion of an alternate implementation
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- Tests would assist in proving out the API
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Baseline of tests now would be beneficial
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A service (Blazemeter) can be hired (by DuraSpace) for JMeter test plans (executed in scale using, Amazon
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Web Services)
Progressing with JMeter
Question: Given the test plans...what are the appropriate next steps?
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Examples from JMeter tests a few years ago
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- Is it a matter of updating these configuration files?
- XML or GUI for creating the test plans
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A. Woods agrees with such an approach for creating...such an API
Experience regarding JMeter
- A. Wagner: New to Fedora...have used it on numerous occasions
Parties responsible for the JMeter? James proposing attempting to contact them
A. Woods has some pessimism
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- A. Woods also bears experience
- N. Ruest is quickly working to gain experience
- J. Griffin is a complete novice
- Would it be helpful to contact parties responsible for the legacy Fedora 3.x JMeter tests?
- The outlook is grim (due to the age of the work)
- Looking through commits...Nigel Banks
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- , Chris Beer
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- and Adam Soroka appear as contributors
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- Also, there is not much a learning curve with JMeter...more a matter of time
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- The limiting factor is time (more than anything else)
Looking to implement test case #4, one should allocate 30 minutes to try to open up the JMeter UI, load JMX file, have enough skill at create the tests
Looking to implement test #4
If it gets too slow to be useful, the test is done
Not much more complexity than this
- Essentially, create the containers, and gauging by the speed of the response of the server, pass or fail the tests
- Ultimately, get to having JMeters for all 6 cases within the plan
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- Then, decide what to do with the information
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- Esme Cowles has been undertaking some testing
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- Baseline of information drives the components of Fedora which must be adjusted in order to improve performance
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- Note that the JVM configuration is included within the system profile
First Test Implementation Team
- N. Ruest leads
- J. Griffin volunteers
- A. Wagner is unavailable until 01/04/16
- Can look to offer hardware for building different boxes
- N. Ruest can spend next 1-2 days addressing this test
- Various test cases with different clients can be planned
- Incremental effort, where the initial creation of containers...building on itself for the container creation, and then look at the other tests
- 72 hours of N. Ruest's dedicated time will be invested in these efforts
- Following the updating of this Confluence Page following the call, N. Ruest will comment and update on the status of his labors
- Indicate any obstacles by Wednesday afternoon
- Should avoid forking the existing GitHub repository
- Include the JMX file alone into a new repository
Long Term Goals
Ideally, make substantial progress before February 2016
- Get a sense of how much effort it shall consume, produce a better estimate
- No strong commitments this far...
- Nice on the next call to have a better sense of when this initial set of tests shall be scripted out
Scheduling the Next Meeting
- Propose a meeting be scheduled into early 2016
- A. Woods shall be unavailable throughout the early year (no access to WWW)
- Hopefully have that meeting before A. Woods returns
- N. Ruest proposes 01/11/15 11:00AM (EST)
- A. Wagner authors an agenda Page
- Agenda will be filled in with updates regarding the progress with the tests
Outreach
- Reaching out to other parties which have, in the past, expressed interest in performance should be explored
- U. Michigan
- Hydra-in-a-Box at Stanford U.
- It would be ideal to bring in other groups (beyond the core Fedora committers)