Performance and scale testing your Data Center app

This page describes the performance and scale testing requirements for Data Center apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Here, we provide guidelines for configuring an existing test platform to produce the test data we need to evaluate your app. For a general overview of Data Center app development, see Developing apps for Atlassian Data Center products.

Requirements

1. Going through the approval process for Atlassian Marketplace, requires executing performance tests on the host equivalent in its capacity to our Data Center customers' ones. The test environment is a crucial point that influences test results and shows off performance impact on the software itself. Hence, running performance suites will require a clustered test host with node configuration similar to AWS m5.2xlarge instance type (8 CPU core and 32 GB RAM).

2. You're required to run tests with preloaded large dataset to your host. The base dataset must mimic the one that ships with the Data Center App Performance Toolkit. See the datasets outlined below.

Dataset requirements

3. You’re required to conduct performance testing on a 1 node DC instance, with and without your app installed.

   You're required to test the main actions of the base product outlined below:

• Jira: login, create issue, view issue, edit issue, view dashboard, view scrum board, view kanban board, add comment,JQL search, logout.

• Jira Service Management: login, view request on portal, create request, view request for agent, edit request, view dashboard, add comment, add attachment, view queues, view reports, JQL search, logout.

• Confluence: login, view page, edit page, create page, add comment to page, view blog, create blog, view dashboard, logout.

• Bitbucket: git clone via ssh, git clone (via https/ssh), git fetch, git push (via ssh/https), git push (via https/ssh), login, create pull request, comment pull request, view branches, view dashboard, view repo, view project repos, logout.

• Crowd: user authentication via crowd.

• Bamboo: login, view plans, view plan results, view plan configuration, view plan history, start plans in parallel.

4. You're required to conduct scale testing of your app. This means testing the same product baseload actions plus specific for your app endpoints and interfaces on the instance with additional 2 and 4 nodes configuration.

Concurrency requirements

We advise using the specified parameters to establish decent workload for all tests. The key values are outlined below:

Jira

• total_actions_per_hour: 54 500 - number of total actions per hour.
• concurrency: 200 - number of concurrent users for scenario.

• test_duration: 45m - duration of the performance run.

Jira Service Management

• total_actions_per_hour_agents: 5 000 - number of total actions per hour for agents.
• total_actions_per_hour_customers: 15 500 - number of total actions per hour for agents.
• concurrency_agents: 50 - number of concurrent agents for scenario.
• concurrency_customers: 150 - number of concurrent users for scenario.
• test_duration: 45m - duration of the performance run. o.

Confluence

• total_actions_per_hour: 20 000 - number of total actions per hour.
• concurrency: 200 - number of concurrent virtual users for scenario.
• test_duration: 45m - duration of the performance run.

Bitbucket

• total_actions_per_hour: 32 700 - number of total actions per hour.
• concurrency: 20 - number of concurrent virtual users for scenario.
• test_duration: 50m - duration of the performance run.

Crowd

• concurrency: 1000 - number of concurrent threads to authenticate random users.
• test_duration: 45m - duration of the performance run.

1 node scenario parameters

• ramp-up: 20s - time to spin all concurrent threads.
• total_actions_per_hour: 180000 - number of total JMeter actions per hour.

2 nodes scenario parameters

• ramp-up: 10s - time to spin all concurrent threads.
• total_actions_per_hour: 360000 - number of total JMeter actions per hour.

4 nodes scenario parameters

• ramp-up: 5s - time to spin all concurrent threads.
• total_actions_per_hour: 720000 - number of total JMeter actions per hour.

Bamboo

• total_actions_per_hour: 2 000 - number of total actions per hour.
• concurrency: 200 - number of concurrent virtual users for scenario.
• test_duration: 45m - duration of the performance run.
• number_of_agents: 50 - number of available remote agents.
• parallel_plans_count: 40 - number of parallel plans execution.

Expected outputs

In order to pass the DC Apps approval process, you need to attach information that covers following points:

• performance regression report (CSV and graph)
• scale report (CSV and graph)
• explication about approach applied during testing (Framework,Testing Browser etc)
• list of the product default actions with their description
• elaboration on the app-specific action (determine its use case)
• specification of dataset dimensions used during testing
• information about load profile configurations
• performance runs execution logs
• CPU load graphs of cluster nodes of all runs

Performance regression report

This report should show the response time of each action for two deployments with and without the app installed.

Sample of performance regression reports

CSV

Graph

Scale report

The report should show the response time of each action on instances with one, two, and four application nodes.

Sample of scale reports

CSV

Graph