WildFly Performance Tuning

The environment of performance tests

It has been mentioned that performance testing and tuning should be performed in a controlled environment. In a perfect world, this means an environment that is free of disturbance, production-like, and unchanged between tests.

Using the following three rules of thumb for your test environment, you will be as close to achieving the perfect environment as you can for your performance tests:

• No disturbances: The tests should not be disturbed by other events, such as the executions of batches, backups, unrelated network traffic, or similar factors, to ensure that measurements relates only to the system under test. In a production environment, there is likely to be external disturbances, but the origins of these ...