personal_sendTransaction_1500.jmx is set up to use 150 concurrent clients with 10 loops to hit the personal_sendTransaction method.
In the second thread group a call is being made to eth_getBlockByNumber to check latest block number until it reaches 0x5dc or 1500 concluding that all transactions have been processed
Resultant TPS is 1500 divided by time taken to finish the test
It is assumed that you are running parity somewhere and the test is configured to point at it. It is configured for localhost by default.
An easy way to run parity with docker would be for example
docker run -ti -p 8180:8180 -p 8545:8545 -p 30303:30303 parity/parity:nightly --config dev-insecure --ui-interface "0.0.0.0" --ui-no-validation ui --fast-unlock
Files can be found here. Each line in those .rpc files contains a JSON object to be fed to a standard RPC interface (IPC or HTTP). One way is presented in the simple submit_corpus.sh script, which can be ran like so
./submit_corpus.sh eth_sendRawTransaction_basic_10000.rpc
Different options might be required to run different tests:
eth_sendRawTransactiondoes not require any special options
parity --config dev
eth_sendTransactionandeth_signTransactionrequire the account to be unlocked
parity --config dev --unlock 0x00a329c0648769a73afac7f9381e08fb43dbea72 --password empty.file --fast-unlock
personal_sendTransactionrequirespersonalRPC API
parity --config dev --jsonrpc-apis personal
Gradle build system
Gradle is used to run Spock tests. Run ./gradlew test in the load_tests directory to run the load tests
Spock test benchmark
Spock Framework is an eye friendly BDD style test framework based on a Groovy DSL. This means you need to have Java installed. The build script is a gradle build and so can be started with the wrapper shell script ./gradlew in the directory containg the build.gradle file. Open load_tests/build/reports/tests/test/index.html to view the test results. The CLI output where benchmark times are recorded is under the Standard Output after clicking on a particular test