Introduction

The 72 hour Stability Test for Drools PDP has the goal of introducing a steady flow of transactions initiated from a Test Client server running JMeter. The onset messages will be submitted through REST interface of Drools PDP. The results are verified through REST interface of Drools PDP using facts, source & sink topics. The JMeter testing will exercise the following use cases:

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The stability test will loop through these use cases sequentially in a single threaded environment for the duration of 72 hours.

Setup details

The stability test is performed on VM's running in OpenStack cloud environment. There are 2 seperate VM's, one for running policy framework & other one for running JMeter to simulate steady flow of transactions.

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OS: Linux 4.4.0-119-generic #143-Ubuntu SMP
CPU: 4core
RAM: 8GB
HardDisk: 80GB
Java: openjdk version "1.8.0_162"

Install JMeter in virtual machine

Make the etc/hosts entries

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The above command will load the JMeter UI. Then navigate to File → Open → Browse and select the test plan jmx file to open.

Install ONAP Policy Framework in virtual machine

Follow the steps mentioned in the below link to install ONAP Policy Framework with controllers & policies in a virtual machine.

ONAP Policy Framework: Standalone installation in Virtual Machine

Test Plan

The 72 hours stability test will run the following steps one by one sequentially in single threaded loop.

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