AZ-589 Increased upper bound for nominators count to 1024. Decreased …

…weight of payout_stakers by 2. Added bench test for payout_stakers. (#326)

* Skeleton

* Almost working

* AZ-589 Now batching transactions works. Finished testcase with 1024 nominators.

* AZ-580 Decreased payput_stakers weight by 2

* AZ-580 Adapting payout_stakers bench to lesser maximum block weight

* AZ-589 Added wrap_method macro to decrease code duplication

* AZ-589 Refactor of common staking constnants into primitives. Refector of common e2e test functions from staking bench into e2e-client crate.

* AZ-589 Added READMEs to benches crate

* AZ-589 Changed minimal stake for becoming a nominator to 100 tokens

* AZ-589 Review remarks

* AZ-589 Fixed imports

* AZ-589 Review remarks, batch 2

* AZ-589 Refectored a little e2e-tests/src/staking.rs

* AZ-589 Added tmp workaround to  scripts/run_e2e.sh to cover all aleph-client log targets

* AZ-589 Removed not required slice operators in e2e-tests/src/staking.rs

* AZ-589 Bumped spec_version

* AZ-589 Updated old aleph binary name in workflows

Co-authored-by: Michal Swietek <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/e2e-tests-main-devnet.yml

@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ jobs:
         timeout-minutes: 20
         env:
           # Relative to local-tests/ directory
-          OLD_BINARY: old-aleph-node/aleph-node
+          OLD_BINARY: old-aleph-release-node/aleph-node
           NEW_BINARY: aleph-test-node/aleph-node
           NEW_RUNTIME: aleph-test-runtime/aleph_runtime.compact.wasm
         run: ./.github/scripts/test_update.sh
@@ -307,5 +307,5 @@ jobs:
         with:
           failOnError: false
           name: |
-            old-aleph-node
+            old-aleph-release-node
             old-aleph-runtime

Cargo.toml

@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ exclude = [
   "e2e-tests",
   "aleph-client",
   "local-tests/send-runtime",
-  "fork-off"
+  "fork-off",
+  "benches/payout-stakers",
 ]

benches/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Performance e2e benches
+
+This folder contains various crates that represent e2e performance tests. They are not incorporated in `e2e-client`
+since they are long-running tests, and because of that cannot be embedded into GH workflows.