activity collaboration stress testing tool

[daf]

We should have a tool that simulates having many laptops collaboration with each other, so that we can catch scalability problems more easily.

I imagine the tool will open a number of Telepathy connections, either using Salut or Gabble. It will then have each connection create/join/leave activities at random, and open/use tubes within those activities at random.

The weakness I can see with such a simulation are that the network load will be unlike that generated by a number of real active laptops, but I think it should catch enough types of problem to be useful. We could also consider a distributed test tool.

[gdesmott]

I started to work on this.

[gdesmott]

My git repo is available at git://dev.laptop.org/users/guillaume/hyperactivity

[marco]

Is this useful to test the mesh view? Will I see activities on it and buddies joining/leaving?

[gdesmott]

Yeah, didn't test yet but that should work.

[gdesmott]

Just did a quick test. Buddies appear on the mesh view but activity doesn't, probably because my fake activites are unknown from sugar. I'll investigate that.

[marco]

It would be awesome to have activities working to hash out the grouping bugs!

[gdesmott]

Hyperactiviy now creates HelloMesh activities. So you'll see them displayed in the mesh view if you have the HelloMesh activiy installed. :)

To test it, you just have to run hyperactivity.py or one of the test-*.py script. Feel free to ping me on IRC if you need help or would like to test a specific scenario.

[daf]

Hyperactivity seems to work well, so closing this ticket.