This week, we worked as a group to consolidate and finalize our testing implementation which currently consists of 3 user classes that run 20 parallel users for a total of 60 for a 1 hour testing plan. We also expanded our server architecture implementation plan to include 4 different virtual machine setups. Each of these has either uniform or varied VM hardware specifications as well as uniform or varied geographic locations. All of this will create additional contexts for testing the relative performance of our load balancers in different environments and use cases.
We also have finalized our load balancer algorithm specifications, including what variables in our custom algorithms can be optimized with recurrent testing. Over this next week, we hope to apply our testing suite to the algorithms for both tuning our custom decision-makers as well as doing final comparisons and data presentation. We will compile this final information into our last project deliverables (poster, video, and final report).