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PHOEBE: an automation framework for the effective usage of diagnosis tools in the performance testing of clustered systems
Date Issued
2017-11
Date Available
2018-04-11T01:00:11Z
Abstract
The identification of performance issues and the diagnosis of their root causes are time-consuming and complex tasks, especially in clustered environments. To simplify these tasks, researchers have been developing tools with built-in expertise for practitioners. However, various limitations exist in these tools that prevent their efficient usage in the performance testing of clusters (e.g. the need of manually analysing huge volumes of distributed results). In a previous work, we introduced a policy-based adaptive framework (PHOEBE) that automates the usage of diagnosis tools in the performance testing of clustered systems, in order to improve a tester's productivity, by decreasing the effort and expertise needed to effectively use such tools. This paper extends that work by broadening the set of policies available in PHOEBE, as well as by performing a comprehensive assessment of PHOEBE in terms of its benefits, costs and generality (with respect to the used diagnosis tool). The performed evaluation involved a set of experiments in assessing the different trade-offs commonly experienced by a tester when using a performance diagnosis tool, as well as the time savings that PHOEBE can bring to the performance testing and analysis processes. Our results have shown that PHOEBE can drastically reduce the effort required by a tester to do performance testing and analysis in a cluster. PHOEBE also exhibited consistent behaviour (i.e. similar time-savings and resource utilisations), when applied to a set of commonly used diagnosis tools, demonstrating its generality. Finally, PHOEBE proved to be capable of simplifying the configuration of a diagnosis tool. This was achieved by addressing the identified trade-offs without the need for manual intervention from the tester.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Wiley
Journal
Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, 47, 1837–1874
Volume
47
Issue
11
Start Page
1837
End Page
1874
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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