Gunnar Morling - Continuous Performance Regression Testing with JfrUnit

Functional unit and integration tests are a common practice to detect and prevent regressions within a software component or application’s behavior. Things look different, though, when it comes to performance-related aspects: how to identify an application is slower than it used to be? How to spot higher memory consumption than before? How to find out about sub-optimal SQL queries that sneaked in? Any performance tests based on metrics like wall-clock time or through-put are not portable. They are subject to a specific execution environment such as a developer laptop, CI, or production-like environment. Welcome JfrUnit: based on the JDK Flight Recorder (JFR), it allows you to implement assertions based on all kinds of JFR events emitted by the JVM or your application.