Performance Engineering

Produktbeschreibung

Initially, computer systems performance analyses were carried out primarily because of limited resources. Due to ever increasing functional complexity of computational systems and user requirements, performance engineering continues to play a major role in software development. This book assesses the state of the art in performance engineering. Besides revised chapters drawn from two workshops on performance engineering held in 2000, additional chapters were solicited in order to provide complete coverage of all relevant aspects. The first part is devoted to the relation between software engineering and performance engineering; the second part focuses on the use of models, measures, and tools; finally, case studies with regard to concrete technologies are presented. Researchers, professional software engineers, and advanced students interested in performance analysis will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Relations between Software and Performance Engineering.- Conception of a
Web-Based SPE Development Infrastructure.- Performance and Robustness
Engineering and the Role of Automated Software Development.- Performance
Engineering of Component-Based Distributed Software Systems.- Conflicts and
Trade-Offs between Software Performance and Maintainability.- Performance
Engineering on the Basis of Performance Service Levels.- Possibilities of
Performance Modelling with UML.- Origins of Software Performance Engineering:
Highlights and Outstanding Problems.- Performance Parameters and Context of
Use.- Performance Modeling and Performance Measurement.- Using Load Dependent
Servers to Reduce the Complexity of Large Client-Server Simulation Models.-
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agents: Issues and Approaches.- UML-Based
Performance Modeling Framework for Component-Based Distributed Systems.-
Scenario-Based Performance Evaluation of SDL/MSC-Specified Systems.-
Characterization and Analysis of Software and Computer Systems with
Uncertainties and Variabilities.- The Simalytic Modeling Technique.- Resource
Function Capture for Performance Aspects of Software Components and
Sub-systems.- Practical Experience.- Shared Memory Contention and Its Impact on
Multiprocessor Call Control Throughput.- Performance and Scalability Models for
a Hypergrowth e-Commerce Web Site.- Performance Testing for IP Services and
Systems.- Performance Modelling of Interaction Protocols in Soft Real-Time
Design Architectures.- A Performance Engineering Case Study: Software Retrieval
System?.- Performance Management of SAP® Solutions.