Design-level performance prediction of component-based applications

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 928-941

  Liu, Yan ^a,b   Fekete, Alan ^a,c   Gorton, Ian ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Performance measures; Quality analysis and evaluation; Software architectures

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS; PERFORMANCE MEASURES; QUALITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES;

BENCHMARKING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; SCALABILITY; SERVERS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 33746830359     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.127     Document Type: Article

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