Hyperfoil

Getting started: Linking phases

Previous quickstart presented a benchmark with three phases that all started at the same moment (when the benchmark was started) and had the same duration - different phases represented different workflows (types of user). In this example we will adjust the benchmark to scale the load gradually up.

At this point it would be useful to mention the lifecycle of phases; phase is in one of these states:

Let’s take a look into the example, where we’ll slowly (over 5 seconds) increase load to 10+5 users/sec, run with this load for 10 seconds, again increase it by another 10+5 users/sec and so forth until we reach 100+50 users per second. As we define maxIterations for these phases the benchmark will actually contain phases browsingUserRampUp/0, browsingUserRampUp/1, browsingUserRampUp/2 and so forth.

Don’t forget to start the mock server as we’ve used in the previous quickstart.

> podman run --rm -p 8080:8083 quay.io/hyperfoil/hyperfoil-examples

Synchronizing multiple workloads across iteration can become a bit cumbersome. That’s why we can keep similar types of workflow together, and split the phase into forks. In fact forks will become different phases, but these will be linked together so that you can refer to all of them as to a single phase. Take a look at the benchmark rewritten to use forks:

This definition will create phases rampUp/0/browsingUser, rampUp/0/buyingUser, rampUp/1/browsingUser etc. - you’ll see them in statistics.

You could orchestrate the phases as it suits you, using startAfter, startAfterStrict (this requires the referenced phase to me terminated instead of finished as with startAfter) or startTime with relative time since benchmark start.

This sums up basic principles, in next quickstart you’ll see how to start and use Hyperfoil in distributed mode.

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