[alicebot-archcomm] performance testing

[Christopher Fahey [askrom]]

> Question 2: Who has suggestions about the giant set of 
> inputs?  Since A.L.I.C.E. has been running on the 
> alicebot.org machine, we have a big set there.  But there are 
> naturally the privacy concerns to deal with. On the other 
> hand, supplying a lot of "fake text" won't be helpful.

Idea 1:
Post the URL of the bot to be tested. Ask everyone in the Alicebot
community (via the mailing lists) to connect to the test bot in a
specific time frame, for example 18:00-18:30 GMT. Each client should
chat in such a way so as to not simply trigger the confusion statement
all the time.

Idea 2:
Write some javascript into your test bot's template.html that parses
sentences at random out of a large text file of a children's book or a
Hemingway novel and submits them to the botserver after a few seconds.
Each person who connects to this bot can just sit back as their browser
has a conversation with the bot. So you can open a dozen instances in
your browser, or you can ask all 5 million people on the
alicebot-general list to connect. When the testing is done, take out the
javascript and the cycle ends on the next refresh.

Idea 3: 
Make two bots talk to each other over AOLIM.

-Cf

[christopher eli fahey]
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