Benchmarking 2009

Participants

 * Geoserver
 * Andrea Aime
 * MapServer
 * Danielle Morissette
 * Jeff McKenna

Basic Premise
Each WMS will be set up on the server box to serve exactly the same set of LAYERS. A JMeter load will be run on the testing box to exercise various aspect of those layers.

Layers

 * texas_roads_unstyled This test exercises raw data access speed. The lines are black, the background is white, there are a hundred or so lines in each output image. The output is a two-color PNG8 image.
 * texas_roads_styled This test exercises the renderer a bit more. The lines will be "pipe-styled" and different road types will have different styles. TODO(Define the road classes and expected styles.)
 * texas_roads_styled_labeled This test exercises the render and the label algorithms. Combine the above style with road labels. Labels will follow curves.  TODO(Define the expected labeling look. We know that exact matches between engines will be impossible, this will be a "best efforts" test)