Performance Testing your Kuali Student Product
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The document outlines the implementation of an open-source administration software for education, focusing on performance testing for the Kuali Student system. It discusses challenges faced, strategies for performance automation, and the selection of the Tsung tool for load testing. Key metrics, lessons learned, and next steps for further improvement are also highlighted.
Performance Testing your Kuali Student Product
- 1. open source administration software for education next generation student system
- 2. open source administration software for education 2 Agenda • Introductions • The Challenge • Approach • Performance Automaton Strategy • Picking a tool • Application Results • Demo • Next Steps • Lessons Learned • Practices that work for us
- 3. open source administration software for education 3 Introduction • Kyle Campos: Performance Engineer for Kuali Student. 11 years experience testing and building automation frameworks, both functional and performance, for web, unix and mobile applications. QA Architect for several startups building processes, tooling and test automation frameworks. • Ben Clark, QA Manager for Kuali Student. 12 years of experience in both the computer software and banking industries. Have lead performance testing efforts using off-the-shelf and home grown solutions. ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Software Quality Engineer. Earned a B.A. from the University of Montana.
- 4. open source administration software for education 4 The Challenge: Performance Testing KS • Experience • Management support • Implementor User Group support • Lacked common definitions of the space • Poorly defined requirements • Lacked institutional system environment information • No Kuali Student profile information (how many courses over a year, cycle info, user info, etc) • No test machines for perf testing • Lacked tools for the job • No qualified resources + Forces for achieving success - Forces against achieving success
- 5. open source administration software for education 5 The Approach Action Plan •Hire experienced performance engineer •Utilize Functional Council and IUG to obtain requirements and data •Define the performance automation strategy •Utilize cloud technologies for test infrastructure •Pick a tool that meets the need • Lacked common definitions of the space • Poorly defined requirements • Lacked institutional system environment information • No Kuali Student profile information (how many courses over a year, cycle info, user info, etc) • No test machines for perf testing • Lacked tools for the job • No qualified resources
- 6. open source administration software for education 6 Performance Automation Strategy • Develop test suites based on critical features list • Benchmark tags & measure performance gain/loss • Add suites as features are developed • Use usage targets provided by universities
- 7. open source administration software for education 7 Open source tools –lots out there! Tool Description Pros Cons JMeter A java desktop app designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance • HTTP protocol Support • Documented • List Support • Didn’t work with GWT/Ajax httperf A software tool which is able to simulate load situations for web services, and calculates performance metrics against the results • Familiarity• Robust• Extensible• HTTP protocol Support• Documented• List Support No dynamic variable support The Grinder Java load testing framework that can run a distributed test using many load injector machines • Flexible • Extensible • Documented • List Support Requires Java expertise Tsung Built for high transaction Env • Built for high trans env • Extendable • HTTP protocol Support • Documented • Dynamic variable support Not being used across other KS products Homegrown Build a tool in-house to test performance Total control • Expensive • Time consuming • Proprietary • Reinventing the wheel
- 8. open source administration software for education 8 Tool Choice - Tsung • Tsung XML API is a homegrown Ruby framework that allows for more rapid load test development, maintenance and execution • Load Framework is tagged and released as validated against milestone releases • Can easily configure custom test suites and load profiles Tsung + Tsung XML API (Ruby) = Load Automation Framework
- 9. open source administration software for education 8 Tool Choice - Tsung
- 10. open source administration software for education 6 Test Design • Test layer doesn’t generate any XML, all XML generated by API calls • Test layer environment agnostic (standalone/embedded) • Tests are added to suites and given a probability to run • API docs dynamically created through rdoc • Test configured & launched by homegrown utility
- 11. open source administration software for education 9 EC2 Network Diagram
- 12. open source administration software for education 10 Application Results - Key Metrics • Concurrent sessions – driven by launched sessions/min • Mean transaction times – feature defined transactions – highest 10sec mean time • Iterative growth changes (linear?) • System resources – cpu, mem
- 13. open source administration software for education 10 Application Results • Data collected into Numbers(excel) for calculations • Published on wiki • Demo
- 14. open source administration software for education 11 Demo • Driver Demo
- 15. open source administration software for education 12 What’s Next? • Tuning guide documentation • Configuration
- 16. open source administration software for education 13 Example problem walkthrough • During Create Proposal load test found 4 concurrent sessions – upped to 16-18 sessions by upping thread pool – Way too many threads being consumed per session • Several rounds of debugging through configuration changes • Traced bottleneck to disabling of Rice caching. Resolved after 5 months
- 17. open source administration software for education 14 Lessons Learned • A proof of concept may not have really proved anything • Tsung is great for flexible load sessions but difficult to manage concurrent sessions • Your load tool must have runtime dynamic variable support to work with GWT (Tsung does)
- 18. open source administration software for education 15 Practices that work for us • Know your goals and requirements • When in doubt, benchmark • Review the test approach with entire team • A coding effort needs a coder; hire the best • Pick a tool that’s within your resource capability • Separate data, tests and tool • Utilize the cloud – it’s cheap and easy
- 19. d open source administration software for education 16 Resources • Automation testing home – https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULSTG/Automation+Testing • Load Test Framework tester’s guide – https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULSTG/Load+Testing+- +Tester%27s+Guide • Load testing results – https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULSTG/Automation+Testing+ Results • Contact – Kyle Campos / Skype: kylecampos_kuali / kcampos@rsmart.com – Ben Clark / Skype: benclark_kuali / benclark@u.washington.edu
- 20. d open source administration software for education 16 Questions?
- 21. d open source administration software for education 17 Timeline Perf.Bug D etected Perf.B ug Fixed 12/09 01/10 02/10 03/10 04/10 05/10 06/10 07/10 08/10 12/1011/1010/1009/10 H ire C om pleted Strategy in place T oolReview C ode C om pleteT oolT esting Benchm ark Benchm ark Benchm ark Benchm ark M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 Release 1.1 Release 1.0 Benchm ark Benchm arkM3 EC 2 Im plem ented EC 2 U se A pproved
Editor's Notes
- #5: Force Field Diagram is used to weigh up or lay out the points for and against a potential action or task