SPE·ED Performance Modeling Tool

SPE·ED™ Performance Modeling Tool

The Software Performance Engineering (SPE) Tool

at a Remarkably Low Price

SPE·ED is a tool designed specifically to support the SPE methods and models defined in Connie U. Smith's books, Performance Solutions and Performance Engineering of Software Systems. The SPE techniques use performance models to provide data for the quantitative assessment of the performance characteristics of software systems as they are developed. Using a small amount of data about envisioned software processing, SPE·ED creates and solves preformance models, and presents visual results. It provides performance data for requirements and design choices and facilitates comparison of software and hardware alternatives for solving performance problems.

Users

SPE·ED makes it easy to quickly construct software performance models. These models are most effective when used to assess software architecture and design decisions, and may also be used to evaluate options for correcting performance problems. While other tools specialize in "industrial strength" models that allow one to examine intricacies of performance, SPE·ED lets users quickly assess simpler models that focus on software performance options.

SPE·ED was created specifically for:

Performance engineering specialists who work with developers to provide performance-decision support data. These users want results quickly and need presentation graphics to communicate the results.
Software developers who feel comfortable with operational specifications of software and quantitative methods. These users want a tool that produces performance data on development alternatives without requiring extensive knowledge of modeling theory.
Professionsals familiar with SPE and the use of models as defined in Smith's books will find SPE·ED simple to use. You don't need special training or academic background in queueing theory or performance modeling.

SPE·ED Facilitates SPE

Dr. Connie U. Smith has taught SPE seminars and applied SPE techniques to software projects for more than 25 years. She has found that many more people would practice SPE if it were easier to try SPE and easier to conduct SPE studies. That is, SPE tools need to be:

inexpensive
quick to learn
shelter the user from intricate knowledge of performance models
focus on results rather than models
support more of the typical, tedious SPE tasks

Dr. Smith developed SPE·ED to fill this SPE void. She is known for her in-depth knowledge of SPE modeling fundamentals and her perseverance of SPE research and development.

You can trust the product to provide the results you need.

We are committed to SPE·ED and will continue to offer new and innovative features to fully support SPE activities.

More Information

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View papers describing how to do Software Performance Engineering with SPE·ED.

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Connie U. Smith, Ph.D., Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

Connie U. Smith and Lloyd G. Williams, Performance Solutions: A Practical Guide to Creating Responsive, Scalable Software, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Product Engineering

SPE·ED was built upon years of research on graphical user interfaces, performance visualization, and streamlined performance modeling techniques. Models can be created quickly and easily.

The foundation software's design facilitates the addition of the new SPE features.

The product integrates these features with a state of the art performance modeling engine, CSIM, originally developed at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, now available from Mesquite Software, Inc. CSIM is a powerful simulation system for computer and communication systems. Its process-oriented architecture is perfect for modeling parallel processing, distributed systems, real time embedded systems, and particularly for SPE models.

SPE·ED automatically creates and solves CSIM models, interprets the system model results, and visually shows both the system execution profile and its affect on the software execution.

The product also integrates an engineering relational data base product. It provides a project-level SPE database for convenient model retrieval, performance tracking throughout development, performance-study archives, and model reuse.

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