Performance Tests

NC contains performance tests for measuring the latency when accessing the Secure Configuration Storage (SCS). The tests are using pytest-benchmark as optional dependency.

You can run the performance tests by calling Nox session test:performance, providing the pytest file as CLI argument. NC will save the results to a Json file named _<file>-results.json in the same folder as the original Pytest file:

poetry run -- nox -s test:performance -- test/performance/benchmark.py

The results based on the initial implementation of the SCS are committed as a baseline and for each pull request NC runs the performance tests via GitHub workflow performance-checks.yml to identify future performance degradation.