State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering

As systems have performance requirements, sometimes dominant and explicit, and other times subordinate and implicit. Despite the pervasiveness and importance of performance requirements, performance problems persist. To help us understand why, we sponsored a workshop in performance engineering and conducted some structured interviews with software contractors. This report summarizes our observations.

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Author

Mark H. Klein

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Performance and Dependability

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-95-TR-020
February 1996

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SEI:

Klein, Mark; State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering (CMU/SEI-95-TR-020 ). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/95tr020.cfm

IEEE:

M. Klein, "State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-95-TR-020 , 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/95tr020.cfm

APA:

Klein, M., (1996). State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering (CMU/SEI-95-TR-020 ). Retrieved May 19, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/95tr020.cfm

CHI:

Klein, Mark, State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering (CMU/SEI-95-TR-020 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/95tr020.cfm

MLA:

Klein, M., 1996. State of the Practice Report: Problems in the Practice of Performance Engineering (Technical Report CMU/SEI-95-TR-020 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/95tr020.cfm

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