[Epic] Load Testing Toolkit Full Build-Out

[kristopherjturner]

Epic: Load Testing Toolkit Full Build-Out

This epic governs the end-to-end delivery of the Azure Local load and performance testing toolkit — from core framework to per-tool integrations, monitoring, reporting, CI/CD, and validated documentation.

Scope Boundaries

• Core framework: src/core/ modules, config, credentials, profiles.
• Infrastructure provisioning: VM and cluster deployment scripts for load test environments.
• Tool integrations: FIO, HammerDB, iPerf, stress-ng, VMFleet — each with contract-defined inputs/outputs.
• Monitoring: collectors, dashboards, alerting thresholds.
• Reporting: templated outputs from test results.
• Validation: evidence-gated closure per child issue.

Hard Close Gate (Mandatory)

No child issue can close without all of:

1. Contract evidence: input config and validation behavior documented.
2. Repro evidence: command transcript + outputs + referenced files/paths.
3. Test evidence: Pester tests or equivalent passing.
4. Dependency evidence: blocking cross-repo issues resolved or explicitly waived.

Child Workstream

• feat: config & schema expansion for all load test profiles #9 — Config & schema expansion for all load test profiles
• feat: core framework modules (session, collector, logger, reporter) #10 — Core framework modules (session, collector, logger, reporter)
• feat: infrastructure provisioning for load test environments #11 — Infrastructure provisioning for load test environments
• feat: FIO storage I/O benchmarking integration #12 — FIO storage I/O benchmarking integration
• feat: HammerDB database load testing integration (TPC-C / TPC-H) #13 — HammerDB database load testing (TPC-C / TPC-H)
• feat: iPerf3 network throughput and stress-ng CPU/memory integration #14 — iPerf3 network throughput and stress-ng CPU/memory integration
• feat: VMFleet S2D fleet storage testing integration #15 — VMFleet S2D fleet storage testing integration
• feat: monitoring dashboards and alerting for test run telemetry #16 — Monitoring dashboards and alerting for test run telemetry
• feat: multi-format report generation (JSON, CSV, HTML, Markdown) #17 — Multi-format report generation (JSON, CSV, HTML, Markdown)
• infra: CI/CD pipelines (lint, test, release) #18 — CI/CD pipelines (lint, test, release)
• docs: documentation and operational runbooks for all load testing tools #19 — Documentation & operational runbooks
• feat: end-to-end validation matrix for all load testing tools #20 — End-to-end validation matrix

Cross-Repo Dependencies

• Toolkit variable registry: Create master variables registry to standardize variables across all repos azurelocal-toolkit#4
• IaC maturity tracking: Track IaC tool maturity status across all repos (Built / Tested / Released) azurelocal-toolkit#5

References

• Dev tracker: Dev tracker: Load and performance testing toolkit #5