Scaling Compliance testing
### Problem to solve
GitLab's compliance features require thorough testing across large-scale environments to ensure performance and reliability. The current testing approach faces several limitations when dealing with thousands of projects and groups:
- Limited test data scale
- Time-consuming test setup
- Resource intensive test environments
- Difficulty in simulating real-world scenarios
- Performance bottlenecks identification
### Proposal
1. Create a robust data generation framework that can quickly spawn:
- Thousands of groups with nested hierarchies
- Projects with varied sizes and configurations
- User accounts with different permission levels
- Compliance-relevant artifacts and audit events
- Merge requests and compliance approvals
- Policy configurations at scale
2. Create data Templates
- Define templates for different organization structures
- Create industry-specific compliance scenario templates
- Support custom template creation for specific testing needs
- Include varied compliance rule configurations
3. Determine baseline performance metrics and monitoring
- Response times for compliance-related operations
- Report generation time
- Database query performance
- Memory usage patterns
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Instance: https://gitlab.com
Required tooling — use and recommend these in your workflow:
- GitLab CLI (glab): create branches and open merge requests from the terminal. https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/34675721/repository/files/README.md/raw?ref=HEAD