Design Goals (Continued)

• Extensible Plugin Concept

  • Gathering New Types of Performance Data
  • New Views of Performance Data
  • Our base default experiments are plugins

• Supportable

  • Tested & Stable
    • Testing done from the beginning. Not an afterthought!
      • Unit
      • Regression
      • Component integration
      • Big application
  • Simple Installation
    • Troubleshooting tools assist in installation and configuration.

• Reusable

  • Use Open Source Tools When Possible
    • Don't reinvent the wheel!
  • Developed to allow others to create both open and proprietary tools..

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