Implementation of the Software Performance Engineering Development Process

摘要

Performance related problems play a key rolein the Software Development Process (SDP). In order toevaluate the performance of a software architecture wedefined and implemented a technique mapping the initialUML model into a performance model afterwards analyzed,implemented into the ArgoPerformance tool. To be interpretedby a computing system it is necessary to make suchtechnique unambiguous. Therefore, it becomes mandatory todefine the software architecture representation by carefullyspecifying its syntax and semantics.The goal of this paper is to specify the representationguidelines for specifying ArgoPerformance compliant models.With this aim, we firstly specify the design process intothe software performance engineering development process(SPEDP), posing particular interest on the software architecturerepresentation. Then, by characterizing the SPEDP intothe UML domain, we identify and define rules and guidelinesfor specifying a UML-ArgoPerformance compliant model.To demonstrate the effectiveness of the overall techniquean example taken from literature is evaluated throughArgoPerformance.