Oracle Corporation
Overlapping-in-time execution of load tests on applications in a centralized system

Abstract:

User specified build jobs are received at a centralized system. Each of the build jobs includes the load jobs for applications to execute in the centralized system. Clients and servers are created on selected hardware hosts based on the build jobs. Each of the selected hardware hosts includes one of the clients and a subset of the servers. Each of the clients and each of the servers resides in a separate container of a plurality of containers. Each of the clients and each of the servers use mutually exclusive subsets of hardware resources provided by the containers and obtain non-emulated operating system assistance. Overlapping-in-time load tests are executed on the applications. Real time performance information is collected during the executing of the load tests of the applications. After completion of a subset of the load tests, a subset of the selected hardware hosts is made available for executing subsequent load tests by removing containers.