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Automated GUI performance testing

Adamoli, Andrea ; Zaparanuks, Dmitrijs ; Jovic, Milan ; Hauswirth, Matthias

In: Software Quality Journal, 2011, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 801-839

Università della Svizzera italiana

Accuracy of performance counter measurements

Zaparanuks, Dmitrijs ; Jovic, Milan ; Hauswirth, Matthias

Many workload characterization studies depend on accurate measurements of the cost of executing a piece of code. Often these measurements are conducted using infrastructures to access hardware performance counters. Most modern processors provide such counters to count micro-architectural events such as retired instructions or clock cycles. These counters can be diffocult to configure, may not be...