Software Performance Engineering: A Case Study Including Performance Comparison with Design Alternatives.

Software Performance Engineering (SPE) provides an approach to constructing systems to meet performance objectives. This paper illustrates the application of SPE to an example with some real-time properties and demonstrates how to compare performance characteristics of design alternatives. We show how SPE can be integrated with design methods and demonstrate that performance requirements can be achieved without sacrificing other desirable design qualities such as understandability, maintainability, and reusability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]