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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/overview.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1ad0b670 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. (c) 2017 ZTE Corp. + + +############ +Introduction +############ + +`QTIP`_ is the project for **Platform Performance Benchmarking** in `OPNFV`_. It aims to provide user a simple indicator +for performance, simple but supported by comprehensive testing data and transparent calculation formula. + +QTIP introduces a concept called **QPI**, a.k.a. QTIP Performance Index, which aims to be a **TRUE** indicator of +performance. **TRUE** reflects the core value of QPI in four aspects + +- *Transparent*: being an open source project, user can inspect all details behind QPI, e.g. formulas, metrics, raw data +- *Reliable*: the integrity of QPI will be guaranteed by traceability in each step back to raw test result +- *Understandable*: QPI is broke down into section scores, and workload scores in report to help user to understand +- *Extensible*: users may create their own QPI by composing the existed metrics in QTIP or extend new metrics + +########## +Benchmarks +########## + +The builtin benchmarks of QTIP are located in ``<package_root>/benchmarks`` folder + +- *QPI*: specifications about how an QPI is calculated and sources of metrics +- *metric*: performance metrics referred in QPI, currently it is categorized by performance testing tools +- *plan*: executable benchmarking plan which collects metrics and calculate QPI + +.. _QTIP: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/qtip +.. _OPNFV: https://www.opnfv.org/ |