Title :
Solving performance issues in COTS-based systems
Author :
Putrycz, Erik ; Slavescu, Marius
Author_Institution :
National Res. Council, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Performance is a critical issue in large projects involving the integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products. Many COTS-products include data collection facilities for monitoring their performance. But for understanding performance problem in a COTS system, it is necessary to understand the causality of events. This paper presents an iterative process that uses data collection and correlation techniques to locate the source of a performance issue. The Eclipse test and performance tools platform project (TPTP) supports this process in COTS-based systems using its extensibility mechanisms. An example illustrates how to use the TPTP tools to solve a performance problem in a real situation.
Keywords :
software packages; software performance evaluation; system monitoring; COTS-based system; Eclipse test; commercial off-the-shelf product; data collection; data correlation; iterative process; performance tools platform project; Councils; Databases; Documentation; Libraries; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Software performance; Software quality; Software testing; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems, 2006. Fifth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2515-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCBSS.2006.27
