Performance Testing - Mashup Server

Mashup Server, being a downstream product of the WSO2 product suite needed to be performance tested after its integration with some other parent products.

Here's how the performance environment was setup:

Main requirement:
Test the performance of the server when performing a resource search while there's a large number of resources in the database.

Tools used:
Apache JMeter 2.2, Badboy 2.0, Selenium IDE.

Loading resources:
1. Loaded the server with 15 users.
The initial script for this was created using Badboy and exported to JMeter. In JMeter the script was executed with a 15 user data file attached to it.

2. Added 10 Mashups for each user.
This was a manual task where I copied the sample and system mashups that are shipped with the server installation, to each user folder.
(NOTE: when creating users Mashup Server creates a user folder for each user in the local file system. All resource related to the user are store in here)
*** Yes I need to automate this part...

3. Added tags and comments to each mashup of each user.
Used a Selenium script in doing this. This was quite straight forward because I simple added all resources under one login in a sequence. (I am yet to enhance this script by researching a bit on looping abilities of Selenium).

Now the test environment is ready. I have 8 scenarios identified around search functionality which exercise the database in various ways. These scripts were also initially created from BB and exported as jmx files.

Scripts and Readme files of above work can be found in: "https://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/commons/qa/mashup/Test Framework/PerformanceTest"