Main achievements for year 2012

enhancement of the CLIF plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration server
- wizard for importing a full CLIF test project with a single click!
- improved automatic reporting
brand new, full-fledged, DNS load injector, including DNSSEC support and a dedicated data set provider
new "Quick Stats" feature: per-request type statistics, aggregated through all load injectors, generated as a single CSV-formatted file once measures are collected
debug and improvement of the interactive analysis and reporting tool
new SelfBench tool box: controller components providing smart benchmarking features (for advanced users)
- automatic saturation detection (SaturationController) according to threshold policies on response times or resource usage
- self-driven load injection (InjectionController) according to a queuing model-based regulation algorithm
further work on the SVN branch based on the ProActive middleware, applied to community cloud-based load testing with CLIF. This work was carried out by Orange Labs (CLIF project) and ActiveEon (ProActive project), and was presented at OW2's Annual Conference in November.

This work won the Special Prize from OW2's Technical Committee. See the Community CLIF presentation
background research work: CLIF execution on cloud computing/virtualized infrastructures, PhD on self-optimization (in French) with CLIF+SelfBench

Results for year 2011

beta version of the new interactive analysis and reporting tool available from the SVN trunk
new production release 2.0.7, coming with:
- extended Synchro ISAC plug-in for synchronization between distributed test scenarios
- optimized and enhanced deployment to support large scale test plans: more than 1000 distributed load injectors (with an average deployment time of 100ms per load injector), support for partial deployment, deployment time-out
new development branch based on the ProActive middleware to bypass some networking issues (routing, firewalls...) and provide CLIF as a service on a community cloud
technical talk about an SOA use case of CLIF at OW2's annual conference, 24th November 2011 in Paris
background research work: CLIF execution on cloud computing/virtualized infrastructures, self-regulated load injection

three stable releases of CLIFv2.0 (2.0.5 the latest)
started full refactoring of the embedded reporting tool
CLIF plug-in for Hudson continuous integration server
CLIF plug-in for maven2
brand new tutorial, given at OW2 conference in November, and published in the documentation page

official launch of CLIFv2.0 beta
new wizards for the Eclipse console: new CLIF test project, new HTTP capture with MaxQ, new test report...
new ISAC plug-ins: synchronization, command line injector, FTP injector
usability improvements and full documentation revision, with new manuals
compilation chain extension to support multiple processor architectures for each operating system

interactive analysis tool for the Java-Swing Console
bridge towards Eclipse BIRT project for test analysis and report generation
JDBC injector (Isac plug-in)
LDAP injector (Isac plug-in)
UDP injector (Isac plug-in)
ISAC plug-ins providing utilies such as: extracting values, getting local IP addresses, generating random values, aggregating response times, etc.
CLIF and ISAC tutorial

creation of ISAC, an extensible environment for defining and executing load testing scenarios (GUI, execution engine, plug-ins for HTTP, DNS)

version 0.1 alpha available

Official project start, opening of the CLIF source forge/CVS site