The Performance Evaluation of Control Implementations
John P. Kearns, Christoph Meier, Mary Lou Soffa · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1982
A methodology for the experimental investigation of the implementation of control in programming languages is presented. The methodology specifies a data-collection technique, the environment for driving simulations of control implementations, and a meaningful metric for performance evaluation. The key in the methodology is the separation of activity which is affected by the control implementation from that which is not.