An experimenter tool for an integrated modelling support environment — its role and design
Rob Pooley · Software Engineering Journal · 1989
Performance modelling and estimation of computer systems is a vital facility for any software engineer. Thus any computer-aided software engineering environment should contain tools to support this. The need to provide tools to support systematic experimentation with performance models is examined and a solution is discussed, building on the idea of an experimental frame, originally introduced by Zeigler in Ref. 1. The inter-working of these tools and the support tools in a proposed integrated modelling support environment is considered. The tools discussed are an experimental plan editor, an experiment executor and an animator. This report is based on a deliverable***! of the Alvey project SE/059 ‘Improved methods for performance modelling (SIMMER)’, but has been edited to be more self-contained.