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Qe Chaos Resilience

Injects controlled faults (network partition, latency, process kill, disk pressure) into distributed systems and validates recovery behavior. Use when testing circuit breakers, failover paths, retry logic, or building confidence in system resilience through chaos engineering.

Archived 2026-10-23 · Source updated 2026-09-13 · License: MIT. Check the original repository for the latest version.

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# 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

```bash
# 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

```typescript
// 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

```typescript
await 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

```typescript
await 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

```typescript
await 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

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

## Fault Types

| Fault | Description | Use Case |
|-------|-------------|----------|
| Latency | Add network delay | Test timeouts |
| Packet Loss | Drop network packets | Test retry logic |
| CPU Stress | Consume CPU | Test resource limits |
| Memory Pressure | Consume memory | Test OOM handling |
| Disk Full | Fill disk space | Test disk errors |
| Process Kill | Terminate process | Test recovery |

## Chaos Report

```typescript
interface 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

```yaml
safety:
  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

```typescript
await 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, security-testing