Course Description
The study of concepts, techniques, and metrics in software performance engineering before, during, and after software development. This covers performance practices throughout the software development life cycle, performance and scalability testing, and principles of performance evaluation including instrumentation, profiling, measurement, and benchmarking.
Credit Hours: 36
Location: Online (MS Teams)
Period: Sept 9, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022
Time: Monday: 15:00 to 16:30, Thursday: 15:00 to 16:30
Recommended Textbooks
- Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice.
- The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis.
- Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning by Example.
Tentative Outline
- Review on software engineering
- Performance engineering
- Models and methods
- Queuing Theory
- Instrumentation and measurement
- Integration into the software life cycle
- Performance testing
- Tools and Case Studies
- Resource scheduling
- Data mining
- Concurrency
Office hours
- Mondays and Thursdays 10:30 to 11:30 and 16:30 to 17:15
- Offline questions: by email
- Online session: by appointment