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Generic Instrumentation and Monitoring Description for Software Performance Evaluation

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Alexander Wert,

Henning Schulz,

Christoph Heger,

Roozbeh FarahbodAuthors Info & Claims

ICPE '15: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

Pages 203 - 206

https://doi.org/10.1145/2668930.2695525

Published: 31 January 2015 Publication History

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Instrumentation and monitoring plays an important role in measurement-based performance evaluation of software systems. To this end, a large body of instrumentation and monitoring tools exist which, however, depend on proprietary and programming-language-specific instrumentation languages. Due to the lack of a common instrumentation language, it is difficult and expensive to port per se generic measurement-based performance evaluation approaches among different application contexts. In this work-in-progress paper, we address this issue by introducing a performance-oriented, generic meta-model for application-independent and tool independent description of instrumentation instructions. Decoupling the instrumentation description from its realization in a concrete application context, by a concrete instrumentation tool allows to design measurement based performance evaluation approaches in a generic and portable way.

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Massa Cereda PNeto J(2017)Towards performance-focused implementations of adaptive devicesProcedia Computer Science10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.390109(1164-1169)Online publication date: 2017
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.390
Wert ASchulz HHeger CHao DSubramanyan RMariani L(2015)AIMProceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test10.5555/2819261.2819274(38-42)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819261.2819274
Wert ASchulz HHeger C(2015)AIMProceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test10.1109/AST.2015.15(38-42)Online publication date: 23-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/AST.2015.15

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Generic Instrumentation and Monitoring Description for Software Performance Evaluation
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Middleware for databases
      1. Distributed transaction monitors
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
        Monitors

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ICPE '15: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering

January 2015

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ISBN:9781450332484

DOI:10.1145/2668930

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University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

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Massa Cereda PNeto J(2017)Towards performance-focused implementations of adaptive devicesProcedia Computer Science10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.390109(1164-1169)Online publication date: 2017
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.390
Wert ASchulz HHeger CHao DSubramanyan RMariani L(2015)AIMProceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test10.5555/2819261.2819274(38-42)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2819261.2819274
Wert ASchulz HHeger C(2015)AIMProceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test10.1109/AST.2015.15(38-42)Online publication date: 23-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/AST.2015.15

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