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To What Extent Does Performance Awareness Support Developers in Fixing Performance Bugs?

Authors : Alexandru Danciu, Helmut Krcmar

Published in: Computer Performance Engineering

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Current research on performance awareness evaluates approaches primarily for their functional correctness but does not assess to what extent developers are supported in improving software implementations. This article presents the evaluation of an existing approach for supporting developers of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) applications with response time estimations based on a controlled human-oriented experiment. The main goal of the experiment is to quantify the effectiveness of employing the approach while optimizing the response time of an implementation. Subjects’ optimizations are quantified by the amount of fixed performance bugs. Having employed the approach, subjects fixed on average over three times more performance bugs. The results further indicate that in the absence of a performance awareness aid, the success of optimizing a previously unknown implementation is far less dependent of the behavior and skill level of the developer.

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Metadata
Title
To What Extent Does Performance Awareness Support Developers in Fixing Performance Bugs?
Authors
Alexandru Danciu
Helmut Krcmar
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Computer Performance Engineering

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-02226-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-02227-3

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02227-3_2