Project code: Software Testpilot
Research group: Database Architectures and Information Access (INS1)

Project coordinator: Martin Kersten

The increasing number of advanced database management systems offered on the market requires tools to quickly assess their performance and to assure their quality. Performance measurement involves running a set of representative workloads, such as benchmarks, and quality assurance, which involves extensive testing. The Software Testpilot developed in the context of ESPRIT-III project Pythagoras greatly simplifies both jobs by enabling a compact specification of the workload search space, a flexible mechanism to interact with a system under study, and a fast algorithm to explose the performance bottlenecks or software instabilities.

This research is of strategic importance, because its core algorithms equally apply to performance assessment of other server-based IT products. It opens a track for technical quality assessment of advanced software products.

Members
Martin Kersten, Fred Kwakkel.

Key publications
Key publications of Software Testpilot

Group reports

• A user's guide to the Software Testpilot
  M.L. Kersten, F. Kwakkel
  1993, CS-R9343, ISSN 0169-118X
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• Design and implementation of a DBMS performance assessment tool
  M.L. Kersten, F. Kwakkel
  1992, CS-R9270, ISSN 0169-118X
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