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This presentation focuses on the importance of Proactive Performance Management and how one could implement Proactive Performance Management approaches on their programs.
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This document discusses building a requirements model and its elements. It explains that a requirements model provides a description of required information, functions, and behaviors for a computer system, and will change as stakeholders' understanding evolves. The model contains scenario-based elements like use cases and user stories, class-based elements like class diagrams that define objects and relationships, behavioral elements like state diagrams that represent system states and events, and flow-oriented elements like data flow diagrams that show how data is transformed through the system.
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This document discusses building a requirements model and its elements. It explains that a requirements model provides a description of required information, functions, and behaviors for a computer system, and will change as stakeholders' understanding evolves. The model contains scenario-based elements like use cases and user stories, class-based elements like class diagrams that define objects and relationships, behavioral elements like state diagrams that represent system states and events, and flow-oriented elements like data flow diagrams that show how data is transformed through the system.
The document discusses requirements for a spelling checker software that will be integrated into an existing word processor. It outlines business requirements for efficient spelling correction and integration. User requirements involve finding and correcting misspelled words by choosing from a list of suggestions. Functional requirements specify highlighting misspelled words, displaying a suggestion dialog box, and enabling global replacements. The software must run on Windows. It also discusses the importance of requirements, characteristics of good requirements, and risks of inadequate requirements like scope creep and an unacceptable product.
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The document discusses software requirements analysis. It explains that gathering requirements accurately is important to estimate costs and ensure project success. There are different types of requirements like functional, non-functional, technical etc. Requirements should be clear, complete, verifiable and traceable. The requirements analysis process involves gathering, analyzing, documenting and validating requirements. Various techniques are used for gathering requirements like interviews, surveys, task analysis etc. Issues like unclear stakeholder needs, poor communication and starting development before requirements are clear can impact requirements analysis.
The document discusses the importance of properly defining software requirements and the risks of inadequate requirements processes. It outlines three levels of software requirements - business, user, and functional requirements. Between 40-60% of defects can be traced back to errors in the requirements stage. The requirements must be documented and represent the needs of users external to the system. Risks of poor requirements include insufficient user involvement, creeping requirements, and inaccurate planning.
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The document discusses the importance of requirements engineering in software development. It states that incomplete or changing requirements are major causes of cost overruns in projects. Proper requirements analysis can help reduce errors and save significant costs compared to later fixes. Challenges include insufficient time, review, and technical knowledge as well as political and communication issues. The key is to fully understand user needs, write clear specifications, and manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Requirement engineering is the process of understanding a client's needs, documenting software requirements, and ensuring the final product meets the client's expectations. It involves eliciting requirements from stakeholders, analyzing and specifying the requirements, and managing changes. The key outputs are a software requirements specification document that formally defines functional and non-functional requirements, and a common understanding between developers and clients.
The document discusses various software engineering practices. It outlines core principles like keeping things simple, maintaining vision, and planning for reuse. It also discusses specific practices for communication, planning, modeling, construction, coding, testing, and deployment. For each practice area, it provides principles and guidelines to effectively carry out those practices when developing software.
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This document discusses several software development models and practices. It describes the waterfall model which involves sequential stages of requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. It also covers prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), and component assembly models which are more iterative in nature. The prototyping model involves creating prototypes to help define requirements, RAD emphasizes reuse and short development cycles, and component assembly focuses on reusing existing software components.
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The document discusses software processes and models. It describes objectives of introducing process models and activities like requirements engineering, design, testing and evolution. Generic process models covered are waterfall, evolutionary development and component-based engineering. Iterative models like incremental delivery and spiral development are also introduced. The Rational Unified Process model and role of computer-aided software engineering in supporting process activities are also summarized.
Software Engineering Layered Technology Software Process FrameworkJAINAM KAPADIYA
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The document provides information on software engineering and the software development process. It discusses software characteristics, applications, and engineering. It describes the software process, including activities like communication, planning, modeling, construction, and deployment. It also discusses process models like waterfall, incremental, RAD, evolutionary/prototyping, and spiral. The waterfall model is explained in detail with the phases of requirements, design, coding, testing, and deployment. Advantages and disadvantages of different models are provided.
Software engineering is the application of engineering principles to the design, development, and maintenance of software. It includes activities like software specification, development, validation, and evolution. Common software processes include waterfall and incremental development models. Waterfall involves separate phases like requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance while incremental allows interleaving and customer feedback.
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Software is a set of instructions and data structures that enable computer programs to provide desired functions and manipulate information. Software engineering is the systematic development and maintenance of software. It differs from software programming in that engineering involves teams developing complex, long-lasting systems through roles like architect and manager, while programming involves single developers building small, short-term applications. A software development life cycle like waterfall or spiral model provides structure to a project through phases from requirements to maintenance. Rapid application development emphasizes short cycles through business, data, and process modeling to create reusable components and reduce testing time.
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So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdf
Primer on application_performance_modelling_v0.1
1. Fundamentals of Application Performance Modelling
Practical Performance Analyst – 7th July 2012
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2. Agenda
Performance Engineering Life Cycle
What is Proactive Performance Management
What is Application Performance Modelling
Why is Application Performance Modelling Important
Holistic View of Performance
Process for Application Performance Modelling
Techniques for Application Performance Modelling
Challenges involved in Application Performance Modelling
Deliverables for the Application Performance Modelling process
Resources & tools to assist with Application Performance Modelling process
3. Performance Engineering Life Cycle
Software Development Life Cycle
Functional Requirements Gathering
Architecture & Design
Build Application
System Test,
System Integrated Test & UAT
Deploy Into Production
Performance Engineering Life Cycle
Non Functional Requirements Gathering
Design for Performance & Performance Modelling
Unit Performance Test &
Code Optimization
Performance Test
Monitoring & Capacity Management
5. What Is Application Performance Modelling
Performance Modelling is the art of forecasting application performance using a combination of different modelling techniques
Performance Modelling gives you the ability to validate application architecture & designs assumptions from a Non Functional Requirements standpoint
Performance Modelling gives you the ability to perform what-if analysis for different design assumptions and identify a suitable design patterns that meets your Non Functional Requirements
Performance Modelling gives you the ability to validate infrastructure specifications from an Non Functional Requirements standpoint
Performance Modelling should be initially performed at design to validate design specifications. These models should then be refined as you move through build into SVT and then into production where changes in modelling techniques will help you predict application performance with greater accuracy.
Performance Modelling is one of the methods available to you as a Practical Performance Analyst to proactively predict application performance and determine infrastructure capacity impacts before the code actually built or deployed into production
6. Why Is Application Performance Modelling Important
Performance Modelling is important to the Practical Performance Analyst for the following reasons –
Gives you the ability to validate design decision early in the Software Development Life Cycle
Gives you the ability to validate infrastructure capacity assumptions early in the procurement cycle
Gives you the ability to forecast infrastructure capacity impacts for increase in business workload
Give you the ability to work with the customer proactively on procuring additional infrastructure to meet growth in business workload
Gives you the ability to forecast changes in application performance before the application is deployed into production
Gives you the ability to forecast potential performance issues early in the Software Development Life Cycle
Performance Modelling offers a suite of techniques that can be used to proactively predict and manage application performance across the Software Development Life Cycle i.e. From Design, to Build, to SVT, to production
7. Txn Performance
- Response Times, etc.
Application Performance – Operations/Sec, Messages/Sec, Transactions/Sec, etc.
Infrastructure Performance – CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Disk IOPS, etc.
Network Performance – Packet Loss, Jitter, Packet Re- ordering, Delay, etc.
Holistic View of Performance
8. Application Performance Modelling Process
Understand Business Objectives & Program Goals
Review Business Requirements Document
Document Non Functional Requirements
Review Application Designs
Review Infrastructure Capacity Designs
Decide on Modelling techniques to be used
Create Performance Models (Analytical or Simulation)
Execute Performance Models for different What-If Scenarios
Validate outcome of Performance Models
Tweak Application Design Assumptions, Infra Design Assumptions & Re- execute Models
Document Learning from What-If Analysis
Provide Recommendations to Application Design & Infrastructure Design teams
9. Techniques for Performance Modelling
Analytical or Mathematical Modelling techniques
Queuing Theory
Queuing Networks
Universal Scalability Law
Operational Theory
Little’s Law
Simulation Modelling techniques
Discrete Event Simulation
Markov’s chains
Petri Nets
Statistical Modelling techniques
Time Series Data Visualization & Analysis
Time Series Forecasting using Exponential Smoothing techniques
Time Series Forecasting using Moving Average techniques
Time Series Forecasting using ARIMA techniques
Simple Regression Modelling
Multiple Regression Modelling
10. Challenges involved in Performance Modelling
Challenges obtaining Non Functional Requirements for the given application
Challenge obtaining resources from the application design and infrastructure design teams to assist with modelling and what-if analysis
Challenges obtaining tools for Performance Modelling (Analytical or Simulation)
Lack of Industry standard tools to analyse, model and visualize data for purposes of Performance Modelling
Challenge convincing people on the usefulness of Performance Modelling techniques
Lack of Capable Resources to assist with data extraction, visualization, analysis & Performance Modelling
11. Deliverables – Performance Modelling
Performance modelling report that –
Validates Non Functional Requirements
Validates Application Designs and its ability to meet overall Non Functional Requirements
Validates Infrastructure Capacity Assumptions and it’s ability to meet overall Non Functional Requirements
Design recommendations to the Application Design teams
Infrastructure recommendations to the Infrastructure Design teams
Recommendations on Performance Testing, Performance Monitoring & Capacity Management
12. Resources & Tools
JMT – Java Modelling Tools (jmt.sourceforge.net)
Queuing Networks
Mean Value Analysis of Queuing Network
Markov’s Chains based Simulation
Simpy (Simpy.sourceforge.net)
Discrete Event Simulation Modelling
R-Project
Time Series Modelling
Regression Modelling
Time Series Forecasting
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