How to enlarge processing time to simulate timeout in application integration

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Why do this

Some timeout parameters are set between the integration of Atlassian applications. If the timeout is not working properly as expected due to bugs, there is a need to reproduce a timeout. However, the process is usually very quick, like below 5 seconds, after you clicked a button from browser. How to reproduce a 60 seconds timeout?

How to do

Basically, it use the options of kill command, as below steps.

• For example, a customer reported the timeout between Jira and Fisheye is not working properly, as the case in JSWSERVER-13296-DevStatus timeouts not taking affect 

• You need to verify if the customer report is true, and want to do a timeout reproduce in your environment.

• ssh to Fisheye server, and find the the process ID of Fisheye.  

   ps aux |grep fisheye

• Open Jira , and navigate to the page or do the operation to let Jira send request to from Fisheye .

• You must suspend Fisheye process as quickly as possible since the process may finish in 5 seconds. The command is like below .

  kill -TSTP [pid]

• After the time span of timeout , check if timeout happened in Jira log.

• When you finished your timeout reproducing, the below command can be used to resume the suspended process of Fisheye.

  kill -CONT [pid]

• More information here about the kill command:  How to suspend and resume processes