Word has it that a freely available Community Edition of the CPM Toolkit will be released shortly! ETA - within the next couple of weeks. By all accounts, it is going to provide the CPM functionality as laid out in Quest Software’s series of whitepapers on the topic.
Exciting stuff! In the meantime, here is a two minute introductory video to the toolkit to whet you appetite. Enjoy.
Jay
Please explain who would use this and why? I’m lost.
Hi Dave,
The toolkit will have most relevance for companies or individuals developing software components that have predefined SLAs or possibly will run in a mission-critical or time/heap sensitive environment.
A simple example might be an insurance company developing a pricing component for claims adjudication. Let’s take it that the following third party libraries are being used: Spring and JBoss Rules. With these libraries we also have our own home grown code that performs specific logic or executes a pricing algorithm at various well defined steps during execution. These steps are like nodes in a decision tree.
Having adopted CI, an organization is likely to have some level of unit testing/integration testing. Using CPM, we can leverage these tests, and probably encourage the creation of new ones, to track the execution profile of our pricing component as development move through the various iterations. If the execution or heap profile deviates significantly to the point where an SLA might be violated, the development team/management are alerted to the fact. It is then up to the team to determine the next course of action: accept the change, investigate the change or take no action.
With the component filtering you will also be able to determine the percentage of time spent in different component technologies e.g. average processing time per claim is 500ms - 60% custom, 20% Spring and 20% JBoss Rules.
If you go to the following link you will find some white-papers that our process architect, Brendan Lawlor, wrote earlier in the year. These make the case for a process like CPM in a number of difference scenarios.
I hope this goes some way to answering your question.
Jay