UML2SAN: Toward A New Software Performance Engineering Approach

Software Performance Engineering (SPE) has recently considered as an important issue in the software development process. It consists on evaluate the performance of a system during the design phase. We have recently proposed a new methodology to generate a Stochastic Automata Network (SAN) model from a UML model, to consequently obtain performance predications from UML specifications. In this paper, we expand our idea to cover more complex UML models taking in advantage the modularity of SAN in modeling large systems. A formal description of the generation process is presented. The new extensiongives rise to a serious approach in SPE that we call UML2SAN.