Mobile Agents: Distributed testing across multiple identical devices?

WebPageTest General Discussion
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I have a private instance. There are several mobile agents set up - various android devices - one each of Nexus4, Nexus5, Nexus7, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5.

I am planning to use the “bulk testing” feature to schedule a bunch of URLs on all the devices.

If I setup multiple agents with identical devices - say 5 Nexus4 devices - when I bulk schedule say 100 URLs on Nexus4 on the WebUI, will the URLs get distributed over the 5 devices?

So for example, if I have 100 URLs to test on Nexus4, is the system smart enough schedule the first 20 URLs on Device 1, second 20 URLs on Device 2 and so on?

If so, what --location parameter I must use on these additional agents? Any locations.ini configuration settings need to be changed as well?

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Figured this one out. WPT is smart!

It is able to distribute the tasks sent to the same location across multiple devices of the same type.

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Yes, as you noticed, any number of devices can pull from a single work queue (desktop and mobile). In the case of desktop an individual test can also be sharded across testers to return results faster (assuming you do more than 1 run).

The tests are queued up and the agents poll the server for work so the tests should be done roughly in round-robin across the devices and in the same order they were submitted.