STARCAT, A System to Analyze Interactive CMS Performance.

Abstract

This paper describes a software system named STARCAT - for STream Analysis of Responses by CATegory. The system analyzes sequences of user command strings that have been captured in a special timestamped CMS console file: user response times, URTs, and system response times, SRTs, are associated with each string; strings are assigned - by command name, environment, or experimenter-chosen groupings - into categories; and category statistics are reported for one, two, and three-string subsequences. STARCAT provides a new tool, valuable to various interface and system design studies, for the quantitative analysis of interactive terminal performance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA056835

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  • Lance A. Miller
  • Roger C. Evans

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  • International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)

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