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GenericWikipedia about Performance Engineering SPE·ED Dr. Connie U. Smith's site about Software Performance Engineering (SPE) and SPE·ED - a tool support the SPE methods and models PerfX Dr. Lloyd G. Williams' SPE publications, including 3 papers about performance anti-patterns CMG conference proceedings from 1997 through 2005 a unique collection of papers about capacity planning, performance engineering, and performance management SPE Radio "is designed to bring you the latest information in the world of Software Performance Engineering" Performance Engineering for Systems in the Early Stages by Sudha Paidipati, an overview in line with Dr. Smith's approach. Software, Performance, or Engineering? by Daniel A. Menascé PerformanceEngineer.com information and links about software performance and performance testing by Charlie Weiblen High Scalability "tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence" A Performance Process Maturity Model by Michael Maddox Charting the Course Through the Performance Management Life Cycle by Steven Rabin, see pp.13-20 Towards Component-Based Software Performance Engineering by Antonia Bertolino and Raffaela Mirandola UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time Specification Version 1.1 Performance Programming: Theory, Practice and Case Study A tutorial by Rajat Garg, Ilya Sharapov and Alistair Rendell presented at SC2002 mBrace Part I Part II Part III - A pragmatic model driven approach for performance engineering of transaction processing systems by Michael Kok Exploring roles for the UML diagrams in software performance engineering by Jose Merseguer and Javier Campos
Performance Anti-Patterns by Bart Smaalders
Performance Engineering for Free by Andrew Lee Assuring Performance in Large IT Systems International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) Infosys' Performance Engineering White Papers Performance RequirementsBeyond performance testing: How fast is fast enough by Scott Barber Get performance requirements right - think like a user by Scott Barber Worth the Wait? by Peter Bickford Quality is in the eye of the beholder: Meeting users' requirements for Internet quality of service by Bouch, A., Kuchinsky, A. and Bhatti, N. When Is Your Web Site Fast Enough? by Chris Loosley Response Times: The Three Important Limits, excerpt from Chapter 5 of Usability Engineering, 1994 by Jakob Nielsen Understanding How Users View Application Performance by Peter Sevcik How Fast Is Fast Enough by Peter Sevcik Apdex web site "Apdex is a numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications, and reflects the effectiveness of IT investments in contributing to business objectives." User Community Modeling Language (UCML 1.1™) for Performance Test Workloads by Scott Barber SEI Load Test Planning Process by Mark McWhinney Workload Characterization by Daniel A. Menascé Gathering Performance Requirements by Manish Pande and Rajeshwari Ganesan Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) To Identify Performance Scenarios for Enterprise Applications by Nidhi Tiwari Addressing Performance Requirements Using a Goal and Scenario-Oriented Approach by Zhiming Cai and Eric Yu
Method for Estimating the Number of Concurrent Users by Eric Man Wong Observability by Adrian Cockcroft Requirements-by-Example by Adriano Comai Modeling ToolsTools that could be used on early stages of computer systems design and development when no system monitoring results exist. See other Modeling Tools in Performance Management section. SPE·ED "a tool designed specifically to support the SPE methods and models defined in Connie U. Smith's book." "Using a small amount of data about envisioned software processing, SPE·ED creates and solves performance models, and presents visual results." Doesn’t have interfaces to monitoring data. HyPerformix Integrated Performance Suite (IPS) Optimizer. Uses discrete event simulation modeling technology. System topology is descried by graphical diagrams. Software behavior is simulated by a scripting language. Has interfaces to different types of monitoring data. HyPerformix IPS Designer. A simple tool using analytical modeling. Uses tabular forms to specify all information. No way to simulate complex software behavior.
Crovan PredictorV "uses predictive technology to find your system’s performance problems early in the development process" PerformanceIt is often difficult to separate information how to design systems with good performance (architecture, performance patterns, language structures, etc.) from information how to tune and deploy systems, quite often both sides are considered. Although more architecture- technology- and language - oriented links are placed here, a lot of related information can be found in the Tuning section. Java Microsoft Web SOA Misc ProfilersQuest JProbe "...complete performance toolkit for Java code tuning. JProbe helps developers diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, excessive garbage collection, threading issues and coverage deficiencies in their J2EE and J2SE applications." JProbe Profiler Freeware available for Windows and Linux. Intel VTune Performance Analyzer "Integrated performance analysis and tuning environment that enables you to analyze your code's performance on Intel architecture processors." Windows and Linux. C++, Java/J2EE, .Net, Fortran. Free 30-day evaluation. Compuware DevPartner "provides a comprehensive development, debugging and tuning solution to the challenges of application development, from concept to coding to completion. DevPartner products cover Microsoft, Java, 64-bit and driver development" Free DevPartner Community Edition available. Rational PurifyPlus Memory corruption detection, memory leak detection, application performance profiling, code coverage analysis. Can not find any mention of Rational Quantify (was name for the Rational profiler) now, perhaps it is included in PurifyPlus now (Purify was a memory debugger). Windows, Linux and UNIX. Java , C/C++, managed VS.NET languages (including C# and VB.NET), Visual C/C++, and Visual Basic. All that profilers should be used with big caution in load testing and production: in most cases they will not work due to huge performance overheads. There are some performance management tools that were developed for profiling and performance diagnostics under load. MonitoringOnly basic monitoring (using operating systems tools and utilities) are considered here. See the Application Performance Management Tools section for production level monitoring and diagnostics. Measuring and Monitoring NT Performance paper and Monitoring NT Performance slides by Jerry Rosenberg Windows 2000 Performance Counters Reference Introduction to Windows Server 2003's Performance Monitor Understanding .NET Performance Counters Understanding SQL Performance Counters Important Counters for Web Testing from Microsoft Jaqui Lynch's Publications: UNIX, AIX, and Linux performance tuning presentations provide a lot of information about monitoring UNIX Performance Data Analysis by Ellen Friedman Wilson Mar's performance monitoring notes Topping top in Solaris 8 with prstat by Tom Kincaid and Andrei Dorofeev Extreme Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning Extreme Linux Performance Monitoring Part II Solving SAS Performance Problems: Employing Host Based Tools by Tony Brown Proactive Application Monitoring by Alexandre Polozoff MonitorTools.com Site devoted to monitoring tools InstrumentationARM (Application
Response Measurement) API to enable applications to provide information to
measure business transactions from an end user perspective and the contributing
components of response time in distributed applications. Now a standard of The
Open Group. There are C and Java bindings. JMX (Java Management
Extensions) "technology provides the tools for building distributed,
Web-based, modular and dynamic solutions for managing and monitoring devices,
applications, and service-driven networks. By design, this standard is suitable
for adapting legacy systems, implementing new management and monitoring
solutions, and plugging into those of the future." The Logging & Instrumentation Application Block "is a component of Enterprise Library that allows developers to instrument their applications with logging and tracing calls. Log and trace messages can be routed to a choice of data sinks, including the Event Log, text files or WMI. This block is the successor of the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF)." Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application layer protocol that facilitates the exchange of management information between network devices. FAQ Related SubjectsSoftware Reliability Engineering John D. Musa's site John Sellens' Reliability Page BooksClick on the book or its title to see book information and reviews (if available) on Amazon.com
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