Microservices are quite widely impacting on the software industry in recent years. Rapid
evolution and continuous deployment represent specific benefits of microservice-based …

The continuous software engineering paradigm is gaining popularity in modern
development practices, where the interleaving of design and runtime activities is induced by …

Short development times of software became crucial to stay competitive. However, the
quality should not suffer from the faster development processes, which is why increasingly …

Resource demands are crucial parameters for modeling and predicting the performance of
software systems. Currently, resource demand estimators are usually executed once for …

The many configuration options of modern applications make it difficult for users to select a
performance-optimal configuration. Performance models help users in understanding …

Architecture-level performance models (aPM) such as the Palladio Component Model
(PCM) can be used for, eg, performance predictions to explore design alternatives and …

Data streaming applications are an important class of data-intensive systems. Performance
is an essential quality of such systems. It is, for example, expressed by the delay of analysis …

Abstract Model-based performance prediction in agile software development promises to
evaluate design alternatives and to reduce the cost of performance tests. To minimize the …

Explicitly considering the software architecture supports efficient assessments of quality
attributes. In particular, Architecture-based Performance Prediction (AbPP) supports …

The availability of architecture-level models of software can aid the development of the
software by preventing architecture degradation and easing maintenance of the software …