Time/Place

• Time: 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time US (UTC-5)
• Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7035
  • Participant Code: 479307#
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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
• ...

Agenda

1. We have consensus on the test plans
2. Next step: execute via JMeter (early Fedora example)
3. ...

Minutes

Consensus on Test Plans

JMeter Test Implementation

Some attendees of the calls have expressed some interest in the past

Thus far, haven't heard from anyone regarding implementation

Utility within the Ongoing Development of Fedora

• Modeshape is undergoing a major release next year 
• Discussion of an alternate implementation 
• Tests would assist in proving out the API 

 Baseline of tests now would be beneficial

 A service (Blazemeter) can be hired (by DuraSpace) for JMeter test plans (executed in scale using, Amazon Web Services)

Progressing with JMeter

• Is it a matter of updating these configuration files?
• XML or GUI for creating the test plans 

Experience regarding JMeter

• A. Wagner: New to Fedora...have used it on numerous occasions
• A. Woods also bears experience
• N. Ruest is quickly working to gain experience

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, Chris Beer and Adam Soroka appear as contributors

 Also, there is not much a learning curve with JMeter...more a matter of time

 The limiting factor is time (more than anything else)

Essentially, create the containers, and gauging by the speed of the response of the server, pass or fail the tests

 Then, decide what to do with the information

 Esme Cowles has been undertaking some testing

 Baseline of information drives the components of Fedora which must be adjusted in order to improve performance

  Note that the JVM configuration is included within the system profile

 Are there other activities which can be addressed before the tests are implemented?

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

 Avoid forking the GitHub repository; Include the JMX file alone into a new repository