Ashish Patel

I have gotten my first tutorial on IBM DeveloperWorks published! The article is called “Build ARM performance monitoring in your applications“. Read it and feel free to comment This article/tutorial comes from a paper I submitted to the Computing Measurement Group (CMG) in Reno 2006.

The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project released an open source and Application Response Measurement (ARM) V4.0-compliant implementation in June 2006, based on TPTP V4.2. This tutorial describes the TPTP project and explains how ARM has been implemented and integrated with TPTP. The trade-offs involved in getting to this point are discussed, along with the challenges in moving forward. Specific examples show how to get started using ARM for your application with TPTP.

This tutorial describes how the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project is extending its toolset to use The Open Group Application Response Measurement (ARM) instrumentation methodology for response-time tracking. Starting with TPTP V4.2, performance analysts will be able to use Eclipse TPTP — or products based on TPTP technology — to identify and monitor individual transactions as they pass through the various components of composite applications. The implementation of ARM described here was released as a Technology Preview with TPTP V4.2 in June 2006. In the future, it will be fully integrated into TPTP.