1. Confluence performance
testing
how we did it

2. Why?
● Live and test environment crashed after release
● Functional testing did not show any problems

3. Target
● Make sure that our changes will not crash live
environment again
● No intention to define performance limits of live
environment

4. How?
● Tests provided by Attlassian
● JMeter
● Own shell script for setup automation
● Dedicated physical machine (not the same as in
live)
● Same confluence configuration as in live

5. Performance indicators
Indicator Requirement Description
90% line baseline + 1.5 s Upper bound of the 90-percent confidence
interval of the average response time
(response time for 90% of requests fits below
given number)
Throughput baseline - 5 req/s Number of requests per second
Error rate 0.1% Percentage of failed requests out of total
requests