Load testing software using deterministic state testing
ISSTA '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Generating test suites for software load testing
ISSTA '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Software performance antipatterns
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Software and performance
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
The Sisyphus database retrieval software performance antipattern
WOSP '02 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance
TPC-W: A Benchmark for E-Commerce
IEEE Internet Computing
Fault Injection Techniques and Tools
Computer
The Automatic Generation of Load Test Suites and the Assessment of the Resulting Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Performance Engineering
Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Joint Tutorial Papers of Performance '93 and Sigmetrics '93
Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Internet Services
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
J2EE Antipatterns
Repeated results analysis for middleware regression benchmarking
Performance Evaluation - Performance modelling and evaluation of high-performance parallel and distributed systems
Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed systems based on UML models
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Object ownership profiling: a technique for finding and fixing memory leaks
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Rule-based automatic software performance diagnosis and improvement
WOSP '08 Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Software and performance
Diagnosing Distributed Systems with Self-propelled Instrumentation
Middleware '08 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference
Digging into UML models to remove performance antipatterns
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Quantitative Stochastic Models in the Verification and Design of Software Systems
Mining Performance Regression Testing Repositories for Automated Performance Analysis
QSIC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Quality Software
Detection and solution of software performance antipatterns in palladio architectural models
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance engineering
Self-adaptive software system monitoring for performance anomaly localization
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Autonomic computing
Uncovering performance problems in Java applications with reference propagation profiling
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Automatically finding performance problems with feedback-directed learning software testing
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Performance problem diagnostics by systematic experimentation
Proceedings of the 18th international doctoral symposium on Components and architecture
Systematic guidance in solving performance and scalability problems
Proceedings of the 18th international doctoral symposium on Components and architecture
Comprehending performance from real-world execution traces: a device-driver case
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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Performance problems pose a significant risk to software vendors. If left undetected, they can lead to lost customers, increased operational costs, and damaged reputation. Despite all efforts, software engineers cannot fully prevent performance problems being introduced into an application. Detecting and resolving such problems as early as possible with minimal effort is still an open challenge in software performance engineering. In this paper, we present a novel approach for Performance Problem Diagnostics (PPD) that systematically searches for well-known performance problems (also called performance antipatterns) within an application. PPD automatically isolates the problem's root cause, hence facilitating problem solving. We applied PPD to a well established transactional web e-Commerce benchmark (TPC-W) in two deployment scenarios. PPD automatically identified four performance problems in the benchmark implementation and its deployment environment. By fixing the problems, we increased the maximum throughput of the benchmark from 1800 requests per second to more than 3500.