Measurements extension 0.3 now available
The 0.3 release adds some new plugins and enhancements applicable to performance and load testing:
New Test Plugins
- The new Test Duration Plugin creates measurements of individual tests (# running, duration, etc.).
- The new Step Summary Measurements plugin creates sampled measurements on steps such as success, failure and error counts, running count, running duration.
Enhancements to existing plugins
- The Periodic Measurement Collector plugin can now tag measurements with the source hostname
- The Step Duration Producer plugin has 3 new features for improving test analysis
- The Save Measurements to CSV plugin now writes a footer line at the end of the file. The footer line is just like the header, but it includes all column names that were encountered during the test suite. This is a design decision – the plugin writes data as it is received, rather than storing it in memory and writing it all at the end. As a result, any metric names that appear for the first time after the first collection of measurements can’t appear in the header line – because it has already been written. Data safety and flexibility of the framework is considered more valuable than the inconvenience in the CSV format. Note that some other formats allow new metric names without a similar compromise.