Messaging belongs to the area of Interprocess Communication and Enterprise Integration techniques. It allows creating distributed software with decentralized, and decoupled flow of information, based on the notion of an address. Main applications of messaging include Internet of Things (IoT), Event-Driven Architecture, application integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Apache Qpid messaging libraries implement a standardized protocol AMQP 1.0 (Advanced Message Queueing Protocol). Moreover, the Apache Qpid JMS library also implements a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) called JMS 2.0 (Java Message Service). The focus of the libraries is to implement the APIs in efficient and performant manner for their respective supported programming languages. Performant messaging is necessary to enable creation of demanding applications, unlocking the world’s potential.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are two techniques of modern software development. Changes to the software are automatically integrated into the master repository, unit tests and integration tests are performed for each change. Continuous Delivery then automates the process of creating deliverable artifacts at release time. Continuous Deployment extends this to automatic deployment of the artifacts to the production environment. This results in making the software development project more agile and efficient.

This bachelor thesis is focused on implementing an automated CI/CD process for performance testing of Apache Qpid messaging libraries. The specific goals of the thesis are as follows:

1. Learn about foundational principles of software testing in general and then focus on software performance testing in particular.
2. Learn about tools and techniques used in performance testing Maestro [2], Quiver[3], and characterize them.
3. Design an automated testing process for performance testing of message libraries qpid-proton and qpid-jms in peer-to-peer mode of operation.
4. Implement test automation in CI (Jenkins) to perform the designed testing. The test automation is to produce summary results for further evaluation.
5. Summarize the developed automation and outline further future extensions of the work.