A Domain-Specific Language and Toolchain for Performance Evaluation Based on Measurements

This tool paper presents iDSL, a language and a fully automated toolchain for evaluating the performance of service-oriented systems. In this work, we emphasize the use of a high-level domain specific language that is tailored to be understood by system designers and domain experts, a transformation into an underlying process algebra which contains latency distribution functions based on real measurements for calibration, and the integration of analysis tools under the hood. Altogether, the approach delivers intuitive, visual results.