Resilio v6.3.0 – Introducing Rate Limiting for Enhanced Test Control

Resilio v6.3.0 – Introducing Rate Limiting for Enhanced Test Control

This minor release introduces significant enhancements to the slt.sh (Simple Load Testing) script, providing users with more granular control over test execution through a new rate-limiting mechanism.

New Feature: Iteration Delay for Rate Limiting

A new configuration variable, ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS, has been added to slt.sh. This allows users to specify a delay in seconds between each complete test iteration.

Key Benefits:

• Controlled Test Pacing: Prevent overwhelming target systems by introducing configurable pauses between test cycles.
• Reduced System Load: Space out test requests to simulate more realistic user behavior or to comply with system capacity limits.
• Improved Stability: Help maintain the stability of the system under test during prolonged load testing by giving it time to recover between iterations.

How to Use:

You can configure the delay by setting the ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS environment variable before running slt.sh:

ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS=5 ./bin/slt.sh

This will introduce a 5-second pause after all scenarios within a single iteration have completed, before the next iteration begins.

What's Changed:

• Added ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS configurable environment variable to slt.sh.
• Implemented a sleep command within the slt.sh main loop to honor the specified iteration delay.
• Updated configuration output to display the ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS value.

Compatibility:

This release is backward-compatible. The new ITERATION_DELAY_SECONDS variable defaults to 0, ensuring no change in behavior for existing setups unless explicitly configured.

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For more detailed information on our testing methodology and other features, please refer to our project documentation.

v6.2.2: Patch Release - Locale Fixes & Code Quality Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Locale Detection: Fixed critical locale detection issues in dlt.sh that prevented execution on systems with comma-based decimal locales by forcing C locale for consistent number parsing
• Shell Script Cleanup: Removed obsolete --dry-run logic and deprecated test files that were causing confusion
• ShellCheck Compliance: Resolved SC2046 warning in runner.sh and SC2006 warnings in Makefile and report.sh

🛠️ Code Quality Improvements

• Test Suite Revamp: Comprehensive test improvements including new unit tests for normality, parser, and runner components
• Enhanced Error Handling: Improved unit test reliability and added better error handling throughout the codebase
• Documentation: Added comprehensive CONTRIBUTING.md with development guidelines, build/test commands, and coding standards

⚡ Performance & Reliability

• Statistical Engine: Enhanced normality detection and statistical methodology implementation
• Parser Improvements: Better handling of ApacheBench output parsing with improved error resilience
• Report Generation: More robust report generation with improved statistical accuracy

📝 Documentation Updates

• Added detailed development guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md covering Python and Shell code standards
• Updated CHANGELOG with comprehensive change tracking
• Improved inline documentation for better maintainability

🧪 Testing Enhancements

• Added comprehensive unit tests for normality detection algorithms
• Enhanced parser testing with better edge case coverage
• Improved mock ApacheBench testing infrastructure

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Resilio v6.2.1 – Test Suite Refactoring & Maintenance

Maintenance Release: Test Suite Refactoring

This release focuses on internal test suite improvements and general code cleanup to enhance reliability and maintainability.

Fixed

• Corrected the P95 percentile methodology contract test by providing the required BASE_DIR environment variable.
• Removed obsolete tests related to deprecated functionality (choose_test, extract_samples, --dry-run).

Changed

• Removed unused functions and legacy --dry-run logic to streamline the codebase.
• Updated README version badges to 6.2.1.

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Resilio v6.2.0 – Reproducible Performance Auditing Toolkit

Resilio v6.2.0

This release formalizes Resilio as a reproducible, research-grade
performance auditing toolkit.

Highlights

• Modular CLI with reusable statistical core
• Welch vs Mann–Whitney test selection (Ruxton-aligned)
• Contract-locked statistical methodology
• Unit + system testing with Bats
• CI-enforced reproducibility
• Paper-ready Methods documentation

Methodology

See docs/methods.md and docs/resilio-performance-methodology.md.

Statistical Foundations

• Welch (1947)
• Mann & Whitney (1947)
• Ruxton (2006)

This release is immutable and suitable for academic citation.