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Test plan for performance testing integration

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+# QUARKUS-1312 Integrate performance testing into the QE Acceptance pipeline
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+This document describes a plan of automation of testing performance of RHBQ with promoted productized builds.
+
+## Scope of the testing
+
+### Impact on test suites and testing automation
+* A job that triggers Quarkus QE start-stop performance metrics in perflab should be implemented and added to 
+  acceptance pipeline.
+* A job triggering TechEmpower testing in perflab should be implemented and ran with candidate releases. Thus this job
+  will be added to extended platform pipeline, which is only ran with builds of required quality.
+
+### Impact on resources
+* For both the start-stop and TechEmpower trigger job, a minimal possible executor will be used. This is currently a 
+  medium machine.
+  * Start-stop testing takes minutes to tens of minutes.
+  * TechEmpower testing takes tens of minutes to hours.
+
+## Future considerations
+* For TechEmpower testing, we should explore using a Horreum dashboard ran in perflab to visualize and compare trends 
+  between releases.
+
+## Contacts
+* Tester: Michal Jurč <[email protected]>
+
+## References
+* Feature epic: [QUARKUS-1312 Integrate performance testing into the QE Acceptance pipeline](https://issues.redhat.com/browse/QUARKUS-1312)