Revel8or: Model Driven Capacity Planning Tool Suite

Designing complex multi-tier applications that must meet strict performance requirements is a challenging software engineering problem. Ideally, the application architect could derive accurate performance predictions early in the project life-cycle, leveraging initial application design-level models and a description of the target software and hardware platforms. To this end, we have developed a capacity planning tool suite for component-based applications, called Revel8tor. The tool adheres to the model driven development paradigm and supports benchmarking and performance prediction for J2EE, .Net and Web services platforms. The suite is composed of three different tools: MDAPerf, MDABench and DSLBench. MDAPerf allows annotation of design diagrams and derives performance analysis models. MDABench allows a customized benchmark application to be modeled in the UML 2.0 Testing Profile and automatically generates a deployable application, with measurement automatically conducted. DSLBenc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Liming Zhu, Yan Liu, Ngoc Bao Bui, Ian Gorton
• Keywords: Accurate Performance Predictions, Customized Benchmark Application, ICSE 2007, Software Engineering, Strict Performance Requirements