Main documentation

The CLIF project's flyer

Videos

• OW2 webinar presenting the main features of CLIF. The CLIF test project archive used in this webinar is available for download.
• Installation of the main CLIF console.

User guides

• Installation guide
• Quick Start manual
• User manual
• ISAC plug-ins reference manual
• Tutorial for CLIF and ISAC utilization
• Using CLIF with Jenkins automation server

Examples and Quick Tour tutorial

• A Quick Tour with the tutorial given at 2010 OW2 Annual Conference:
  • Slides [ODP|PDF]
  • Dummy project: Dummy.zip
  • solutions to WebLab project: WebLab-solutions.zip
• Sample CLIF test plans and associated ISAC scenarios are available in this zip file: clif-examples.zip

  You may just unzip this file to get the test plan and scenario files, or, when using the Eclipse-based console, you may import the zip file as an Eclipse project archive file (File>Import...>General>Existing Projects into Workspace>Select archive file).
  In the latter case, you directly get a CLIF test project including all the test plans and scenarios.

Advanced users and developers documentation

• Developer's guide
• Tutorial for developing new ISAC plug-ins
• architecture description [ODP] [PDF]
• Java API documentation

A Fractal component-based architecture

To provide a flexible architecture, CLIF makes use of the Fractal component model. For example, load injectors and probes are components that can be defined, plugged in and (un-/re-)deployed at runtime. Thanks to the Fractal model, customizing CLIF does not require to know details about the whole framework, but only about a well-defined, reduced number of client and server interfaces.

Related papers, presentations and reports

• All-in-one functional, integration, performance testing and QoE monitoring with CLIF
  See the presentation presentation video
• Performance Testing and Monitoring: A Guided Tour Through CLIF Tools and Features
  See the presentation presentation video
• Automating Performance Testing over the Cloud with CLIF and ProActive Workflows & Scheduling
  See the presentation video and the slides
• Benchmarking Orange Forge with CLIF
  See the presentation video and the slides
• Re-VAMP load testing with CLIF for continuous integration on the cloud
  See the screen capture video of the demonstration, the slides and the presentation video .
• CLIF meets Jenkins: performance testing in continuous integration, or more...
  Slides: , Videos:
• Talk on using CLIF on a PaaS cloud via the Jenkins continuous integration server given at the ComPAS 2013 Conference
• PhD on self-optimization (in French) with CLIF+SelfBench
• ProActive CLIF: Cloud Enabled Load Injection
  Slides: , Videos:

  This work won the Special Prize from OW2's Technical Committee.

• technical talk about an SOA use case of CLIF at OW2's annual conference, 24th November 2011 in Paris
• using CLIF with an external load injection controller: A. Harbaoui, N. Salmi, B. Dillenseger, and J.-M. Vincent, "Introducing Queuing Network-Based Performance Awareness in Autonomic Systems", Best paper Award, The Sixth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS), March 7-13, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico
• about CLIF architecture: B. Dillenseger, "CLIF, a framework based on Fractal for flexible, distributed load testing", Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 64, No 1-2, January-February 2009 (available from SpringerLink, or ask the CLIF mailing list)
• presentation at ObjectWebCon 2006 [ODP][PDF]
• CLIF's kick-off paper at OOPSLA 2003 Workshop on "Middleware Benchmarking: Approaches, Results, Experiences" [PDF], and presentation [PDF]