dqualizer

Goal

The dqualizer project enables domain-driven runtime quality analysis (RQA) of software systems by leveraging Domain Driven Design techniques. In particular, dqualizer focuses on domain-driven monitoring, load testing, and resilience testing. For more information, please visit our website.

Overview

Figure 1. dqualizer component overview

The dqualizer approach consists of six components with different responsibilities:

Component	Short Description
dqualizer	The main repository contains elements that are related to all components, e.g., documentation.
dqanalyzer	The dqanalyzer component enables domain experts to specify and perform RQA without profound knowledge of the underlying technical infrastructure and analysis tools, e.g., by annotating elements in domain stories.
dqcockpit	Dqcockpit is a dashboard visualizing the results of executed RQAs.
dqedit	The dqedit component is the editor for the mapping necessary to translate domain questions / RQA definitions to technical RQA configurations.
dqtranslator	Dqtranslator maps (domain) RQA definitions to technical RQA configurations that can be executed by dqexec. It also maps the technical results back to the domain level.
dqexec	The dqexec component executes the RQA configuration by utilizing state-of-the-art monitoring, load testing, and resilience testing tooling.
dqlang	The dqlang is a collection of languages utilized by dqualizer e.g., the DST extension for domain-level RQA specification or the language for defining mappings in dqedit.

Component

Short Description

dqualizer

The main repository contains elements that are related to all components, e.g., documentation.

dqanalyzer

The dqanalyzer component enables domain experts to specify and perform RQA without profound knowledge of the underlying technical infrastructure and analysis tools, e.g., by annotating elements in domain stories.

dqcockpit

Dqcockpit is a dashboard visualizing the results of executed RQAs.

dqedit

The dqedit component is the editor for the mapping necessary to translate domain questions / RQA definitions to technical RQA configurations.

dqtranslator

Dqtranslator maps (domain) RQA definitions to technical RQA configurations that can be executed by dqexec. It also maps the technical results back to the domain level.

dqexec

The dqexec component executes the RQA configuration by utilizing state-of-the-art monitoring, load testing, and resilience testing tooling.

dqlang

The dqlang is a collection of languages utilized by dqualizer e.g., the DST extension for domain-level RQA specification or the language for defining mappings in dqedit.

For a detailed description of the architecture, we refer to our arc42 document.

Cite

If you want to refer to dqualizer in scientific papers, please use the following publication:

@proceedings{dqualizer23,
  title        = "dqualizer: Domain-Centric Runtime Quality Analysis of Business-Critical Application Systems",
  authors      = "Frank, Sebastian and Brott, Julian and Kesim, Dominik and Holz, Heiko and Eschhold, Matthias and van Hoorn, André"
  year         = "2023",
  booktitle    = "Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE '23 Companion)",
  doi          = "10.1145/3578245.3584853",
  publisher    = "ACM"
}

The dqlang Docu can you find here