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This testing methodology explains how we at Atlassian benchmark the performance of each Jira release. That section lays out the environment/infrastructure, dataset, and user actions we used.
Once you set up your instance and load it with your dataset, you can use JPT (Jira Performance Tests) to run the different user actions listed in that methodology: