1 # Getting started with the Performance Dashboard 2 3 ## Prerequisites 4 5 Running the tests, running the local server and 6 deploying all depends on having the [the App Engine 7 SDK](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/downloads). 8 9 After downloading and unpacking, you should add the path to the SDK to 10 both `PATH` and `PYTHONPATH`. 11 12 ## Running the tests 13 14 To run the Python unit tests, use `bin/run_py_tests`. To run the front-end 15 component tests, use `bin/run_dev_server_tests`. 16 17 ## Running a local instance 18 19 Run `bin/dev_server`; this sets up a temporary directory, adds links to 20 required libraries, and calls `dev_appserver.py` on that directory. By 21 default, this starts a server on [localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080/). 22 23 To load sample graph or alert data from production, navigate to 24 [/load\_from\_prod](http://localhost:8080/load_from_prod). 25 26 ## Deploying to production 27 28 To deploy, you can run `bin/deploy`, which prepares the 29 code to be deployed and runs `appcfg.py`. Note that this 30 doesn't set the new version as the default version; to do 31 this, you can use the versions page on the [Google Developers 32 Console](https://console.developers.google.com/) if you have edit or 33 owner permissions for the App Engine project; otherwise if you want to 34 request to set a new default version for chromeperf.appspot.com you can 35 contact chrome-perf-dashboard-team (a] google.com. 36 37 After deploying, there is a checklist to verify that no major functionality 38 has regressed: [deploy checklist](/dashboard/docs/deploy-checklist.md). 39 40 WARNING: Some changes to production may not be easily reversible; for 41 example `appcfg.py ... vacuum_indexes` will remove datastore indexes that 42 are not in your local index.yaml file, which may take more than 24 hours, 43 and will disable any queries that depend on those indexes. 44 45 ## Where to find documentation 46 47 - [App Engine](https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/) 48 - [Polymer](http://www.polymer-project.org/)(web component framework) 49 - [Flot](http://flotcharts.org/)(JS chart plotting library) 50 - [App engine stubs](https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/localunittesting) 51 - [Python mock](http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/) 52
