Table of Contents

 1     Scope            
        1.1     Organization of the present Recommendation          
 2     References   
 3     Definitions   
        3.1     Term defined elsewhere  
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation     
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms  
 5     Conventions
 6     Performance characteristics     
        6.1     Classifying performance characteristics into categories          
        6.2     Powerfulness characteristics          
        6.3     Reliability characteristics               
        6.4     Efficiency characteristics               
 7     Measured objects       
        7.1     Measured services           
        7.2     Measured components   
        7.3     Service concepts              
        7.4     Service characteristics     
        7.5     Service interfaces             
 8     Performance measurement data objectives and attributes               
        8.1     Performance metric objectives     
        8.2     Measurement data attribute sets  
        8.3     Processing attributes or metric types            
        8.4     Identification attributes or metric identifiers              
        8.5     Unit attributes or metric formats  
        8.6     Conditional attributes     
 9     Abstract performance metrics 
        9.1     Abstract performance metrics and performance categories   
        9.2     Abstract powerfulness metrics      
        9.3     Abstract reliability metrics             
        9.4     Abstract efficiency metrics            
10     Performance data processing 
       10.1     Steps in performance data processing        
       10.2     Time series of performance data
       10.3     Collection and storage of raw performance data    
       10.4     Condensation and normalization of raw performance data 
       10.5     Performance data computations
       10.6     Evaluation of performance data
       10.7     Presentation of performance data              
11     General performance test concepts       
       11.1     Performance tests           
       11.2     Performance tests and system life cycle phases       
       11.3     Performance test objectives         
       11.4     Performance objectives and performance requirements        
       11.5     Performance measurement conditions      
       11.6     Performance targets       
       11.7     Performance measurements standards      
       11.8     Some performance test characteristics      
12     Performance test environment               
       12.1     Test environment concepts          
       12.2     System under test concepts          
       12.3     Test system concepts     
13     Performance test specifications             
       13.1     Elements of performance test specifications            
       13.2     Test objectives
       13.3     Test conditions
       13.4     Test configurations        
       13.5     Test data specifications
       13.6     Test evaluation specifications     
14     Workload concepts  
       14.1     Workload set or traffic set            
       14.2     Workload content          
       14.3     Workload volume          
       14.4     Load concepts
       14.5     Workload time distribution           
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