Attendance at 14th ACM/SPEC ICPE in Coimbra
19 April 2023, by SWK
Members of the SWK group recently attended the 14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), which took place in Coimbra, Portugal, from April 15-19, 2023. This conference ...
... was particularly noteworthy as it was the first ICPE held in person after COVID. Among other activities, our group presented papers at two workshops held in conjunction with the conference.
The first workshop was the Eighth Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C 2023). Sebastian Frank presented the paper "dqualizer: Domain-Centric Runtime Quality Analysis of Business-Critical Application Systems" by Sebastian Frank, Julian Brott, Dominik Kesim, Heiko Holz, Matthias Eschhold, and André van Hoorn. The paper is available in the Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE '23 Companion) and can be accessed here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3578245.3584853.
The submitted paper features our vision and preliminary results of domain-driven runtime quality analysis, which we currently develop as part of the dqualizer project in collaboration with Novatec Consulting GmbH. Researchers and practitioners from the University of Hamburg, Novatec Consulting GmbH, University of Stuttgart, and Ludwigsburg University of Education have contributed to the paper. More information about the dqualizer project can be found on the project website: https://dqualizer.github.io/.
The second workshop was the Eleventh International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2023). Our group presented the paper "Verifying Transient Behavior Specifications in Chaos Engineering Using Metric Temporal Logic and Property Specification Patterns" by Sebastian Frank, Alireza Hakamian, Denis Zahariev, and André van Hoorn. The paper is available in the Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE '23 Companion) and can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1145/3578245.3584314.
The paper presents our solution for extending the Chaos Engineering process and tooling by testing transient behavior specifications. This work has been conducted and supervised within the SPEC RG DevOps Performance Working Group, with the main contributors being from the University of Hamburg and the University of Stuttgart. The work is embedded in the Software Campus Project “DiSpel”: https://softwarecampus.de/en/project/dispel-data-driven-specification-and-verification-of-resilience-scenarios/
Preprints and slides for both papers are available at https://dqualizer.github.io/publications.html.
In addition to attending the workshops, our group members also participated in meetings of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), particularly the SPEC Research Group. Our members have been actively involved in different leading roles in ICPE and SPEC RG for about 15 years.
The next ICPE conference is scheduled to be held in London, UK. We look forward to presenting our latest research at the conference and continuing our active involvement in the performance engineering community.