Caliper-nxt
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Background
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    Caliper-nxt is a plugin for Avocado framework (https://avocado-framework.github.io/), that implements Caliper (http://open-estuary.org/caliper-benchmarking/) Parsing and Scoring features to Avocado framework.

    A proof of concept (PoC) implementation of caliper-nxt is under development on this repository (https://github.com/open-estuary/caliper-nxt)

Installation
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    Steps
        1. Install Avocado framework as described in the website for avocado.
        2. Install caliper-nxt with command 'sudo python setup.py install'
        3. Run command 'avocado plugins' and verify that 'caliper_cli' and 'caliper_post' are listed along with plugins.
        4. Run caliper test and verify output file generated (details below).

Usage
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    In this PoC implementation, avocado framework accepts two caliper run command options.

        '--caliper <config file>' : Specifies config file to be used for the current avocado job
        '--caliper-output <output path>' : Specifies the location of parsed/scored outputs

Example usgae
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    avocado run <path to test folder>/dhrystone.py --caliper <path to config file>/caliper_config.txt