Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice

Praise for Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering

“If this book had only been available to the contractors building healthcare.gov, and they read and followed the lifecycle performance processes, there would not have been the enormous problems apparent in that health care application. In my 40-plus years of experience in building leading-edge software and hardware products, poor performance is the single most frequent cause of the failure or cancellation of a new, software-intensive project. Performance requirements are often neglected or poorly formulated during the planning and requirements phases of a project. Consequently, the software architecture and the resulting delivered system are unable to meet performance needs. ...