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name: "QE Chaos Resilience" description: "Chaos engineering and resilience testing including fault injection, load testing, and system recovery validation."

QE Chaos Resilience

Purpose

Guide the use of v3's chaos engineering capabilities including controlled fault injection, load/stress testing, resilience validation, and disaster recovery testing.

Activation

• When testing system resilience
• When performing chaos experiments
• When load/stress testing
• When validating disaster recovery
• When testing circuit breakers

Quick Start

Copy# Run chaos experiment
aqe chaos run --experiment network-latency --target api-service

# Load test
aqe chaos load --scenario peak-traffic --duration 30m

# Stress test to breaking point
aqe chaos stress --endpoint /api/users --max-users 10000

# Test circuit breaker
aqe chaos circuit-breaker --service payment-service

Agent Workflow

Copy// Chaos experiment
Task("Run chaos experiment", `
  Execute controlled chaos on api-service:
  - Inject 500ms network latency
  - Monitor service health metrics
  - Verify circuit breaker activation
  - Measure recovery time
  - Document findings
`, "qe-chaos-engineer")

// Load testing
Task("Performance load test", `
  Run load test simulating Black Friday traffic:
  - Ramp up to 10,000 concurrent users
  - Maintain load for 30 minutes
  - Monitor response times and error rates
  - Identify bottlenecks
  - Compare against SLAs
`, "qe-load-tester")

Chaos Experiments

1. Fault Injection

Copyawait chaosEngineer.injectFault({
  target: 'api-service',
  fault: {
    type: 'latency',
    parameters: {
      delay: '500ms',
      jitter: '100ms',
      percentage: 50
    }
  },
  duration: '5m',
  monitoring: {
    metrics: ['response_time', 'error_rate', 'throughput'],
    alerts: true
  },
  rollback: {
    automatic: true,
    trigger: 'error_rate > 10%'
  }
});

2. Load Testing

Copyawait loadTester.execute({
  scenario: 'peak-traffic',
  profile: {
    rampUp: '5m',
    steadyState: '30m',
    rampDown: '5m'
  },
  users: {
    initial: 100,
    target: 5000,
    pattern: 'linear'
  },
  assertions: {
    p95_latency: '<500ms',
    error_rate: '<1%',
    throughput: '>1000rps'
  }
});

3. Stress Testing

Copyawait loadTester.stressTest({
  endpoint: '/api/checkout',
  strategy: 'step-increase',
  steps: [100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000],
  stepDuration: '5m',
  findBreakingPoint: true,
  monitoring: {
    resourceUtilization: true,
    databaseConnections: true,
    memoryUsage: true
  }
});

4. Resilience Validation

Copyawait resilienceTester.validate({
  scenarios: [
    'database-failover',
    'cache-failure',
    'external-service-timeout',
    'pod-termination'
  ],
  expectations: {
    gracefulDegradation: true,
    automaticRecovery: true,
    dataIntegrity: true,
    recoveryTime: '<30s'
  }
});

Fault Types

Chaos Report

Copyinterface ChaosReport {
  experiment: {
    name: string;
    target: string;
    fault: FaultConfig;
    duration: number;
  };
  results: {
    hypothesis: string;
    validated: boolean;
    metrics: {
      before: MetricSnapshot;
      during: MetricSnapshot;
      after: MetricSnapshot;
    };
    events: ChaosEvent[];
    recovery: {
      detected: boolean;
      time: number;
      automatic: boolean;
    };
  };
  findings: {
    severity: 'critical' | 'high' | 'medium' | 'low';
    description: string;
    recommendation: string;
  }[];
  artifacts: {
    logs: string;
    metrics: string;
    traces: string;
  };
}

Safety Controls

Copysafety:
  blast_radius:
    max_affected_pods: 1
    max_affected_percentage: 10

  abort_conditions:
    - error_rate > 50%
    - p99_latency > 10s
    - service_unavailable

  excluded_environments:
    - production-critical

  required_approvals:
    production: 2
    staging: 0

SLA Validation

Copyawait resilienceTester.validateSLA({
  slas: {
    availability: 99.9,
    p95_latency: 500,
    error_rate: 0.1
  },
  period: '30d',
  report: {
    breaches: true,
    trends: true,
    projections: true
  }
});

Coordination

Primary Agents: qe-chaos-engineer, qe-load-tester, qe-resilience-tester Coordinator: qe-chaos-coordinator Related Skills: qe-performance, qe-security-compliance