We are mostly using the tests we have prepared last year. We are using c4.xlarge instances (4 vCPU and 7.5gb RAM) compared to last years c5.4x.large instances for a for cost effective testm5.4xlarge instances for Jira nodes.
We are using our old test data too. Here is our test data:
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Part 1 - Performance Test
We have run our tests 4 times, 2 without app and 2 with app. Differences can be considered within error margins.
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During the tests our Jira node was fully loaded and due to that a few requests timeout but they were not significant. Here is CPU usage and request charts for our Jira Node, Load Balancer and DB. Time axis is different for DB due to timezone difference.
Jira Node:
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Load Balancer:
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Database:
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Part 2 - Scalability Test
Since our UI is completely implemented with Rest API & React we are only implementing Jmeter tests. We haven’t disabled selenium tests because they also also run Javascript and exercise our backend.
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