DevTest is not responding when staging multiple test at the same time

Products

• CA Application Test
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

When staging multiple test cases one by one through build.xml, the Coordinator stops responding. 

In the Portal under 'Server Health', the Coordinator was using most of the default 128 threads.

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Cause

N/A

Resolution

To stage a large number of tests, increase the Capacity of the Coordinator.

The Coordinator has a command line flag that can set this. 

To see all Coordinator startup flags run:

CoordinatorServer --help

To start with a higher number of threads (300 for example) run: 

CoordinatorServer -c 300

Additional Information

Some further suggestions to improve staging of tests: 

- Disable CAI-Pathfinder

- Think time set to 0

- Instead of the 'Default Report Generator', use the 'Load Test Generator' or 'XML Report Generator'