CLP,ALoadPerformanceFrameworkForTheConclusionTestPlatform

Date: 2008-01-31

Time: 12.00

Room: BBL room 471

Speaker: Laurence Cabenda

Title: CLP, A load & performance framework for the Conclusion Test Platform (Thesis Defense)

Abstract

In today’s world software projects often still lead to failure after they have been released. The origins of these failures are in a lot of cases not related to functional incorrectness, which one might assume, but are in a lot of cases performance related. For this reason performance related tools and frameworks can have a key role in ensuring quality and assurance in today’s software projects.

The Conclusion Test Platform is owned and exploited by Collis B.V and is used to perform functional and conformance testing in a wide spectrum of domains. This platform uses the ETDL language, which is based on the ISO 9646 standard, for protocol and interface testing. For efficient and effective testing of the performance of multi-user systems Collis is interested in a reusable framework for performance testing with Conclusion. This framework should be flexible and capable to test the performance of a wide variety of protocols and systems, from web applications and services to financial transaction systems.

This thesis will aim to provide a model for planning and executing a performance test, giving a performance tester the ability to easily specify the load that is to be generated. Furthermore this thesis will discuss a proposed framework for the Conclusion Test Platform, which implements this model and provides a way to create the test scripts in ETDL with the least amount of effort and can be used to put load on a system under test; enabling the testing of performance. With this implementation we seek to relieve the test script implementer with much of the boiler plate code, which is necessary to create these scripts. Furthermore the implementation will support representations of the measurements, such as the response times; enabling the analysis of the executed tests. With these features we try to automate an entire performance test.