GoHammer Blockchain Performance Test Tool

Abstract

Decentralized services are increasingly being developed and their Decentralized applications are increasingly developed but their performance metrics are not tested enough. The total number of transactions that can be supported by the blockchain network and the performance effects of selecting different consensus protocols, using different block intervals and block size should be tested. There are some blockchain performance tools but most are built for specific blockchain frameworks and require complex configuration. The GoHammer tool is developed to provide an easy to use, flexible test tool for the Ethereum/Quorum blockchain frameworks. Transaction per second (TPS) values and several performance metrics will be tested. This tool is also a part of the series of tools that can be integrated with Tubu-io. This tool will help in developing more efficient decentralized systems and will affect decreasing the costs of developing decentralized application projects.

Keywords

• Blockchain
• smart contract
• performance testing

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