Agnostic performance testing framework

Abstract

The vast majority of software developed must have the capacity to support thousands of simultaneous users. To ensure that this is the case, systems must be tested to their limits to ensure possible points of failure at an early stage of development, avoiding wasting time and money on tuning and fixing those problems. Failure points in application performance can cause users to be unable to perform key transactions, causing the customer to lose money every second. Thus, it is critical to be able to identify these issues as soon as possible, that is, as the software is developed and integrated. These kinds of issues can be developed using a performance testing tool integrated into a CI/CD pipeline. So that this tool can be reused in various types of projects with different technologies, it is proposed that it be agnostic and developed in an open-source tool. Thus, the purpose of developing an agnostic performance testing tool is essentially related to two points: the delays caused by the lack of concern for non-functional requirements at the beginning of projects and the possibility of testing the performance of a project independently of the technology it uses, thus reducing the time spent in familiarizing with the operation of the tool and technologies.