Architecture-Based Performance Analysis

Authors: Bridget Spitznagel and David Garlan

Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '98), June 1998.

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Abstract

A software architecture should expose important system properties for consideration and analysis. Performance-related properties are frequently of interest in determining the acceptability of a given software design. In this paper we show how queueing network modeling can be adapted to support performance analysis of software architectures. We also describe a tool for transforming a software architecture in a particular style into a queueing network and analyzing its performance.

Keywords: Software architecture, software performance, queueing networks, design analysis, architecture analysis tools


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