Overview

The performance results tool provide an easy way to look at results collected while running performance tests on a build. It is accessible using the Performance Results perspective:

Performance Results perspective

There are 4 views in this perspective:

Components view: This is the view to see the results in details for each components
Builds view: This is the view to see all builds, update local data and generate results when necessary
Components Results view: This is the view to see whole results for each machine in a single table
Properties view: Display element properties (typically results numbers and other database information)

The goal of this tool is both to look at performance results database numbers and to verify whether a build result may have scenario showing performance regression.

The view to use to look at performance results number is the Components view. In this results are displayed in a hierarchical tree which have a similar structure than the generated HTML pages (e.g. Eclipse 3.5.0). The complete performance results information is provided on each element of the tree in the Properties view. This is typically useful when a scenario results looks weird to have the ability to verify that the numbers looks correct or not.

The view to verify whether a regression occurs is the Components Results view. All results for one component are shown in a single table which also provides all necessary information to decide whether a noticed regression could be confirmed or not.