[wtp-dev] Need your help to do more performance test automation

[Jeffrey Liu <jeffliu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As we are marching into M5, we need
to ramp up our focus on performance. Since we are building a platform here,
our tools need to perform well because vendors are going to build products
on top of us. If our tools do not perform well, it will affect the performance
of the extended products.

As a start, we need to do more performance
test automation. We have setup a machine that is dedicated for performance
testing. This machine runs performance tests daily and uploads results
to:

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/performance/performance.php

As of today, there aren't many performance
tests added to the build. We need to improve that and commit more performance
JUnit tests. May I ask component leads to create at least 3 performance
tests per component? They should test the mainstream scenarios for that
component. You can probably reuse some of the functional JUnit tests and
turn them into performance tests. Here's a document that talks about how
to write performance tests:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/*checkout*/org.eclipse.test.performance/doc/Performance%20Tests%20HowTo.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html

Feel free to let me know if you have
any questions. Also I will volunteer myself to help out on any performance
related issues. Whether it's writing performance JUnit tests or reproduce/debug
memory leaks/bottlenecks, just let me know.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Liu
IBM Rational Software - Performance Analyst
IBM Toronto Lab.
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