An industrial case study of customizing operational profiles using log compression

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 713-721

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Martin, Daryl J ^b   Flora, Parminder ^b   Mansfield, Paul ^b   Dietz, Dave ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Execution logs; Load testing; Operational profile; Performance; Reliability; Verification.

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY PLANNING; EXECUTION LOGS; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; LARGE CUSTOMER; MISSION CRITICAL; OPERATIONAL PROFILE; PERFORMANCE; REVENUE STREAMS; TELECOM APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

LOAD TESTING;

EID: 67249129457     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368088.1379445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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