PerfX Publications

The following articles and technical papers may be viewed and downloaded in pdf format.

List of selected publications:

Of Interest to Managers:

Five Steps to Establish Software Performance Engineering in Your Organization, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2006.
Making The Business Case for Software Performance Engineering, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2003.
Best Practices for Software Performance Engineering, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2003.

Technical Publications:

QSEM^SM: Quantitative Scalability Evaluation Method, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2005.
Web Application Scalability: A Model-Based Approach, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2004.
Software Performance Engineering, in UML for Real: Design of Embedded Real-Time Systems, 2003.
More New Software Performance Antipatterns: Even More Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2003.
PASA^SM: An Architectural Approach to Fixing Software Problems, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2002.
New Software Performance Antipatterns, More Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2002.
PASA^SM: A Method for the Performance Assessment of Software Architectures, Proceedings of the Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2002), 2002.
Software Performance AntiPatterns: Common Performance Problems and Their Solutions, Proceedings of the Computer Measurement Group, 2001.

SPE Best Practice

Establish precise, quantitative performance requirements.

Precise, quantitative performance objectives help you to control performance by explicitly stating the required performance in a format that is rigorous enough so that you can quantitatively determine whether the software meets that objective. Well-defined performance objectives also help you evaluate architectural and design alternatives and trade-offs and select the best way of meeting performance (and other quality) requirements.