A framework for software performance engineering of client/server systems

摘要

Designers of new client/server (C/S) applications have many cholices such as use of three-tiered architectures, work distribution between clinents and servers, distribution of functions and DB tables among servers, and others. This paper presents a language-based framework for Software Performance Engineering in C/S environments. The language allows for the specification of objects such as clients, servers, DB tables, networks, and transactions. A specification of a C/S system in this language compiles into an analytic model used to predict the performance of the new system.