Early performance testing of distributed software applications

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 94-103

  Denaro, Giovanni ^a   Polini, Andrea ^b   Emmerich, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed Software Architecture; Middleware; Performance Analysis Models; Software Performance; Software Testing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MIDDLEWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS MODELS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543055843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/974043.974059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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