APPR

What is it for

Automated Profiling & Performance Regression (APPR) is a toolset for accelerating and automating performance profiling of OpenOffice, which intends to address following targets:

• Gather & correlate measurable data of interest
• Measure & track metrics across builds & workload variation
• Add new metrics as appropriate to work focus

A presentation about APPR on OOCon 2005 made by Dhananjay Keskar and Michael Leibowitz can be found here.

Features

APPR provides following features for performance profiling of OpenOffice:

• Automation of OpenOffice usages
  • Startup
  • LoadFile
  • PlaySlides
• Integration of 3rd-party performance profling utilities
  • strace
  • stat monitor
  • VTune
• Data corelation and visualization
• Extensable framework to add support for new usages and/or 3rd-party utilities

How to use it

Detailed information about how to use APPR can be found in user guide document (./docs/APPR-User-Guide.odt) in the tarball.

Please follow this guide to enable APPR with Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on Ubuntu 11.04. Thanks!

Links

• APPR version 1.0 (tarball)
• Presentation on OOCon 2005
• The slides from OOCon 2005 (odp)
• The slides from OOCon 2005 (pdf)