Performance tools

Author

Nichols, K.M. ; Dubois, David ; Janczewski, C. ; Flower, Jean ; Flanagan, David ; YAN, JIU DUN ; Malony, Allen ; Reed, Doug ; Saraiya, N. ; Snyder, L. ; Krumme, D. ; Couch, A. ; Hideyuki, T.

Volume

7

Issue

3

fYear

1990

fDate

5/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Performance tools are a way of making systematic the work needed to carry out performance studies so that several studies can be carried out more easily and be compared in a consistent way. After a brief overview by K. Nichols, 11 selected tools are introduced, in separate presentations, by their originating organizations. Four are strictly commercial products; most of the rest are available for a small distribution fee. They cover algorithms, architectures, their interactions, and testing of programs to meet real-time constraints. They target a range of systems: communications, computers, manufacturing, control, and embedded systems. Subjects included in the descriptions include Ada program tuning, real-time monitoring of N-cube programs, animated and analytical solution of queueing-system models, real-time and postmortem event-trace display, instrumented systems, and discrete-event simulation. The tools covered are: Network Architecture Simulation System; Q+, PM; Perspective; Axe; Hyperview; Simple/Care; Poker; Triplex; Arts; and Jed.<>

Keywords

performance evaluation; software tools; Ada program tuning; Arts; Axe; Hyperview; Jed; Network Architecture Simulation System; PM; Perspective; Poker; Q+; Simple/Care; Triplex; algorithms; architectures; discrete-event simulation; instrumented systems; performance tools; program testing; queueing-system models; real-time constraints; real-time monitoring; Animation; Communication system control; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer architecture; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Embedded computing; Embedded system; Real time systems; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.55223

Filename

55223