Chapter 5. From Workloads to Business Aspects of Performance Requirements
We build a bridge from workload identification to performance requirements, explore how performance requirements relate to the software lifecycle, and explore how performance requirements fit into a business context, particularly as they relate to the mitigation of business risk and commercial considerations. We also describe criteria for ensuring that performance requirements are sound and meaningful, such as unambiguousness, measurability, and testability.
5.1 Overview
Poor computer system performance has been called the single most frequent cause of the failure of software projects [SmithWilliams2001] and is perceived as the single biggest risk to them [Bass2007]. The ...
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