Automatic stress testing of multi-tier systems by dynamic bottleneck switch generation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5896 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 393-413

  Casale, Giuliano ^a   Kalbasi, Amir ^b   Krishnamurthy, Diwakar ^b   Rolia, Jerry ^c  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Bottleneck switch; Burstiness; Performance

Indexed keywords

BURSTINESS; BURSTY SERVICES; MARKOV MODEL; MODEL-BASED; MULTI-TIER SYSTEM; QUEUEING DELAYS; SERVICE DEMAND; STRESS TESTING; SYSTEM RESOURCES; THROUGHPUT DEGRADATION; BOTTLENECK SWITCHES; MODEL BASED TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE;

BENCHMARKING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MIDDLEWARE;

SWITCHES; BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70549109052     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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