RadarGun: Toward a Performance Testing Framework

Abstract

We present requirements on a performance testing framework to distinguish it from a functional testing framework and a benchmarking framework. Based on these requirements, we propose such a performance testing framework for Java, called RadarGun. RadarGun can be included into a continuous integration server, such as Jenkins, so that performance tests are executed automatically during the build process. We conducted a feasibility evaluation of this approach by applying it to the continuous integration infrastructure of the Pipe-and-Filter framework TeeTime.