Performance tools
Kathleen M. Nichols, Daniel J. Dubois, C. Janczewski, John E. Flower, David P. Flanagan, Jiwei Yan, Allen D. Malony, Daniel A. Reed, Nakul P. Saraiya, Lloyd Robert Snyder, David W. Krumme, Alva L. Couch, Tamura Hideyuki · IEEE Software · 1990
Performance tools are a way of making systematic the work needed to carry out performance studies so that several studies can be carried out more easily and be compared in a consistent way. After a brief overview by K. Nichols, 11 selected tools are introduced, in separate presentations, by their originating organizations. Four are strictly commercial products; most of the rest are available for a small distribution fee. They cover algorithms, architectures, their interactions, and testing of programs to meet real-time constraints. They target a range of systems: communications, computers, manufacturing, control, and embedded systems. Subjects included in the descriptions include Ada program tuning, real-time monitoring of N-cube programs, animated and analytical solution of queueing-system models, real-time and postmortem event-trace display, instrumented systems, and discrete-event simulation. The tools covered are: Network Architecture Simulation System; Q+, PM; Perspective; Axe; Hyperview; Simple/Care; Poker; Triplex; Arts; and Jed.>