Performance Engineering: State of the Art and Current Trends

Reiner Dumke, Reinhard Koeppe (auth.), Reiner Dumke, Claus Rautenstrauch, André Scholz, Andreas Schmietendorf (eds.)3540421459, 9783540421450

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.

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Table of contents :
Conception of a Web-Based SPE Development Infrastructure….Pages 1-19
Performance and Robustness Engineering and the Role of Automated Software Development….Pages 20-39
Performance Engineering of Component-Based Distributed Software Systems….Pages 40-55
Conflicts and Trade-Offs between Software Performance and Maintainability….Pages 56-67
Performance Engineering on the Basis of Performance Service Levels….Pages 68-77
Possibilities of Performance Modelling with UML….Pages 78-95
Origins of Software Performance Engineering: Highlights and Outstanding Problems….Pages 96-118
Performance Parameters and Context of Use….Pages 119-131
Using Load Dependent Servers to Reduce the Complexity of Large Client-Server Simulation Models….Pages 131-147
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agents: Issues and Approaches….Pages 148-166
UML-Based Performance Modeling Framework for Component-Based Distributed Systems….Pages 167-184
Scenario-Based Performance Evaluation of SDL/MSC-Specified Systems….Pages 185-201
Characterization and Analysis of Software and Computer Systems with Uncertainties and Variabilities….Pages 202-221
The Simalytic Modeling Technique….Pages 222-238
Resource Function Capture for Performance Aspects of Software Components and Sub-systems….Pages 239-256
Shared Memory Contention and Its Impact on Multiprocessor Call Control Throughput….Pages 257-266
Performance and Scalability Models for a Hypergrowth e-Commerce Web Site….Pages 267-282
Performance Testing for IP Services and Systems….Pages 283-299
Performance Modelling of Interaction Protocols in Soft Real-Time Design Architectures….Pages 300-316
A Performance Engineering Case Study: Software Retrieval System?….Pages 317-332
Performance Management of SAP® Solutions….Pages 333-348