Title: Urbit Fleet Tests Author: Ted Blackman ~rovnys-ricfer ted@tlon.io Created: ~2017.12.14
After a month of labor, Tlon gave birth to a new continuity era, which came out kicking and screaming, covered in amniotic fluid. A slew of issues rapidly appeared in the wild. We'd tested the functionality of the new features, but we hadn't stress-tested them. Some bugs, like herpes, only manifest when the system is under stress.
We need a way to perform automated testing on a fleet of Urbits. We'll want to crank up the load to arbitrary severity while retaining the ability to measure results -- crucially, we want to improve our sleep quality by testing loads much worse than the live network.