It is mandatory to continuously assess software systems during development and operation,
eg, through testing and monitoring, to make sure that they meet their required level of …

The use of e-learning technologies is growing even faster due to the existing conditions
where virtual setups temporarily replace traditional classroom environments. Service …

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, frequent workload bursts show an increasing
influence on the Quality of Service (QoS) and energy efficiency of cloud-based data centers …

Artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) plays a critical role in operating and managing
cloud-native systems and microservice-based applications but is limited by the lack of high …

Load tests evaluate software quality attributes, such as performance and reliability, by eg,
emulating user behavior that is representative of the production workload. Existing …

Performance is an important aspect of software quality. The goals of performance are
typically defined by setting upper and lower bounds for response time and throughput of a …

Configuration tuning for big-data software systems is generally challenging due to the
complex configuration space and costly performance evaluation. The workload changes …

Effectively managing cloud resources can be challenging due to the inter-dependencies of
various cloud-hosted services. Workload categorization identifies and groups workloads …

With the increased prevalence of employing workflows for scientific computing and a push
towards exascale computing, it has become paramount that we are able to analyze …

Modern cloud applications must be tuned for high performance. Yet, a single static
configuration is insufficient since a cloud application must deal with changes in workload …