Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2006
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Department
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Committee Chair
Bojan Cukic.
Abstract
It is essential that software systems meet their performance objectives. Many factors affect software performance and it is fundamental to identify those factors and the magnitude of their effects early in the software lifecycle to avoid costly and extensive changes to software design, implementation, or requirements. In the last decade the development of techniques and methodologies to carry out performance analysis in the early stages of the software lifecycle has gained a lot of attention within the research community. Different approaches to evaluate software performance have been developed. Each of them is characterized by a certain software specification and performance modeling notation.;In this thesis we present a methodology for predictive performance modeling and analysis of software systems. We use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a software modeling notation and Layered Queuing Networks (LQN) as a performance modeling notation. Our focus is on the definition of a UML to LQN transformation We extend existing approaches by applying the transformation to a different set of UML diagrams, and propose a few extensions to the current "UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time", which we use to annotate UML diagrams with performance-related information. We test the applicability of our methodology to the performance evaluation of a complex software system used at border entry ports to grant or deny access to incoming travelers.
Recommended Citation
Bracchi, Paola, "A methodology for software performance modeling and its application to a border inspection system" (2006). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 2478.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/2478