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authorRex Lee <limingjiang@huawei.com>2018-04-13 01:29:33 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@opnfv.org>2018-04-13 01:29:33 +0000
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@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ Architecture
Abstract
========
-This chapter describes the yardstick framework software architecture. we will introduce it from Use-Case View,
-Logical View, Process View and Deployment View. More technical details will be introduced in this chapter.
+This chapter describes the yardstick framework software architecture. We will
+introduce it from Use-Case View, Logical View, Process View and Deployment
+View. More technical details will be introduced in this chapter.
Overview
========
@@ -23,8 +24,8 @@ files. Yardstick is inspired by Rally. Yardstick is intended to run on a
computer with access and credentials to a cloud. The test case is described
in a configuration file given as an argument.
-How it works: the benchmark task configuration file is parsed and converted into
-an internal model. The context part of the model is converted into a Heat
+How it works: the benchmark task configuration file is parsed and converted
+into an internal model. The context part of the model is converted into a Heat
template and deployed into a stack. Each scenario is run using a runner, either
serially or in parallel. Each runner runs in its own subprocess executing
commands in a VM using SSH. The output of each scenario is written as json
@@ -43,13 +44,15 @@ names, image names, affinity rules and network configurations. A context is
converted into a simplified Heat template, which is used to deploy onto the
Openstack environment.
-**Data** - Output produced by running a benchmark, written to a file in json format
+**Data** - Output produced by running a benchmark, written to a file in json
+format
**Runner** - Logic that determines how a test scenario is run and reported, for
example the number of test iterations, input value stepping and test duration.
Predefined runner types exist for re-usage, see `Runner types`_.
-**Scenario** - Type/class of measurement for example Ping, Pktgen, (Iperf, LmBench, ...)
+**Scenario** - Type/class of measurement for example Ping, Pktgen, (Iperf,
+LmBench, ...)
**SLA** - Relates to what result boundary a test case must meet to pass. For
example a latency limit, amount or ratio of lost packets and so on. Action
@@ -128,8 +131,8 @@ Snippet of an Iteration runner configuration:
Use-Case View
=============
Yardstick Use-Case View shows two kinds of users. One is the Tester who will
-do testing in cloud, the other is the User who is more concerned with test result
-and result analyses.
+do testing in cloud, the other is the User who is more concerned with test
+result and result analyses.
For testers, they will run a single test case or test case suite to verify
infrastructure compliance or bencnmark their own infrastructure performance.
@@ -254,7 +257,8 @@ Yardstick Directory structure
*tools/* - Currently contains tools to build image for VMs which are deployed
by Heat. Currently contains how to build the yardstick-trusty-server
- image with the different tools that are needed from within the image.
+ image with the different tools that are needed from within the
+ image.
*plugin/* - Plug-in configuration files are stored here.