Write your own benchmarks

Caliper provides a set of nodejs NBIs (North Bound Interfaces) for applications to interact with backend blockchain system. Check the packages/caliper-core/lib/blockchain.js to learn about the NBIs. Multiple Adaptors are implemented to translate the NBIs to different blockchain protocols. So developers can write a benchmark once, and run it with different blockchain systems.

Generally speaking, to write a new caliper benchmark, you need to:

  • Write smart contracts for systems you want to test
  • Write a testing flow using caliper NBIs. Caliper provides a default benchmark engine, which is pluggable and configurable to integrate new tests easily. For more details, please refer to Benchmark Engine.
  • Write a configuration file to define the backend network and benchmark arguments.

Directory Structure

Directory Description
/benchmark Samples of the blockchain benchmarks
/docs Documents
/network Boot configuration files used to deploy some predefined blockchain network under test.
/src Souce code of the framework
/src/contract Smart contracts for different blockchain systems

License

The Caliper codebase is released under the Apache 2.0 license. Any documentation developed by the Caliper Project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may obtain a copy of the license, titled CC-BY-4.0, at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.