Minutes from Alibaba Test Contributions Meeting

[smlambert]

Presentation from Alibaba team on next steps:

• enable more platforms
• new external test targets (netty, spring)
• Unsafe Checker tool demo
• Q&A about open perf testing

In our subsequent discussion, the following links/issues/enhancements were noted:

• “AQA You Are Soaking in It” presentation from early 2020

• External tests to consider adding: Add more container-based 3rd party application tests #172 (I have added netty and spring to this list, so we do not need a separate issue, just PRs to incorporate those)

• Identify and prioritize open perf benchmarks: Identify and prioritize open perf benchmarks  #1112

• Add external_custom target (potentially getting help from students on this item): Add external_custom target  #2076

• Necessary enhancement to support vendor specific tests: Add support for JDK_VENDOR in playlists  TKG#115

• Discussion/enhancement issue for discussing where best to contribute "unsafe checker" tool: Contribute and incorporate "unsafe checker" tool  #2077

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We can plan to meet regularly (monthly? or as needed), to discuss updates to open perf testing and tools, decisions/discussion on how best to provide control and config of certain tests that require multi-machine setup, improvements/ideas to stabilize external test targets, running tests via dynamic parallelization or any other topics that may be useful. If we do meet regularly, we can consider it an AQAvit meeting for timezones that can not comfortably attend the bi-weekly Wednesday AQAvit meetings.

[smlambert]

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