Effect of operations on application requests

• US 10,459,937 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Micro Focus LLC (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Shuvali, Haim, Mor, Noam, Offer, Guy, Kabizon, Avi, Ron, Meir
• Primary Examiner(s): Aquino, Wynuel S
• Application Number:
  US15/198,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20180004819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3419 by assessing time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3452 Performance evaluation by statistical analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet

Abstract

A plurality of completion times associated with an application request may be obtained. The plurality of completion times may include a first completion time and a second completion time. A plurality of response times associated with a first asynchronous operation triggered by the application request may be obtained. The plurality of completion times may include a first response time associated with the first completion time and a second response time associated with the second completion time. A first correlation score may be determined describing an effect of the first asynchronous operation on the application request based on the first completion time, the second completion time, the first response time, and the second response time. Visualization data may be generated representing the first correlation score.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource to:

in response to an application request accessing a webpage, perform a sequence of operations including a first asynchronous operation, wherein the first asynchronous operation is an operation that is triggered by the application request and is independent of other operations in the sequence;

obtain a plurality of completion times for a completion of the application request, wherein the plurality of completion times comprises a first completion time for completing a first instance of the application request and a second completion time for completing a second instance of the application request;

obtain a first response time which is a length of time to complete the first asynchronous operation in the first instance of the application request and a second response time which is a length of time to complete the first asynchronous operation in the second instance of the application request;

determine a first correlation score describing an effect of the first asynchronous operation on the application request based on the first completion time, the second completion time, the first response time, and the second response time, wherein to determine the first correlation score, the processing resource is to;

determine a first average of the first and second response times, determine a second average of the first and second completion times, and determine a ratio of the first average over the second average as the first correlation score, wherein a value of the ratio indicates a level of effect the first asynchronous operation has on the application request; and

generate visualization data representing the determined first correlation score indicating how much the first asynchronous operation affects the completion of the application request.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processing resource to:

obtain a third completion time which is a length of time to complete a third instance of the application request;

obtain a third response time which is a length of time to complete the first asynchronous operation in the third instance of the application request;

update the first correlation score with the third completion time and the third completion response time; and

update the visualization data to represent the updated first correlation score.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application request is a web page request, and wherein the first and second completion times associated with the application request each describe a load time of the web page.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application request is a user input, and wherein the first and second completion times associated with the application request each describe a wait time after the user input.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processing resource to:

obtain a plurality of response times associated with a second asynchronous operation triggered by the application request, wherein the plurality of response times associated with the second asynchronous operation comprises a fourth response time which is a length of time to complete the second asynchronous operation in the first instance of the application request associated with the first completion time and a fifth response time which is a length of time to complete the second asynchronous operation in the second instance of the application request;

determine a second correlation score describing an effect of the second asynchronous operation on a completion of the application request based on the fourth response time, the fifth response time, the first completion time, and the second completion time; and

generate visualization data representing the second correlation score.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first correlation score is based on a Pearson correlation.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processing resource to:

obtain a third completion time which is a length of time to complete a second application request; and

group the application request with the second application request.

8. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to;

in response to an execution of a first instance of a first application request accessing a webpage, perform a sequence of operations including a first asynchronous operation and a second asynchronous operation, wherein asynchronous operations are operations that are triggered by the first application request and independent of other operations in the sequence;

obtain a first completion time which is a length of time to complete the first instance of the first application request;

obtain a first response time which is a length of time to complete the first asynchronous operation in the first instance of the first application request;

obtain a second response time which is a length of time to complete the second asynchronous operation in the first instance of the first application request;

determine a first correlation score describing an effect of the first asynchronous operation on the first application request based on the first completion time and the first response time, by determining a first ratio of the first response time over the first completion time, wherein a value of the first ratio is the first correlation score that indicates a level of effect the first asynchronous operation has on the first application request;

determine a second correlation score describing an effect of the second asynchronous operation on the first application request based on the first completion time and the second response time, by determining a second ratio of the second response time over the first completion time, wherein a value of the second ratio is the second correlation score that indicates a level of effect the second asynchronous operation has on the first application request; and

display visualization data representing the determined first correlation score and the determined second correlation score indicating how much the first and second asynchronous operations affect the completion of the first application request.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processor to obtain a third response time which is a length of time to complete the first asynchronous operation in a second instance of the first application request, and update the first correlation score based on the third response time.

10. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processor to obtain a second completion time which is a length of time to complete a second instance of the first application request, and update the first correlation score based on the second completion time.

11. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the first application request is a web page request, and wherein the first completion time describes a load time of the web page.

12. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the first application request is a user input in a mobile application, and wherein the first completion time describes a wait time between the user input and the response of the mobile application.

13. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the first and the second correlation scores are determined using a modified Pearson process.

14. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions are executable to cause the processor to obtain a second completion time for completing a second application request, and group the second application request with the first application request.

15. A method comprising:

in response to a first application request accessing a webpage, performing, by a processing resource, a first sequence of operations that includes a first operation;

obtaining, by the processing resource, a first completion time which is a length of time to complete the first application request;

obtaining, by the processing resource, a first response time which is a length of time to complete the first operation triggered by the first application request;

determining, by the processing resource, a first correlation score describing an effect of the first operation on the first application request, by determining a first ratio of the first response time over the first completion time, wherein a value of the first ratio is the first correlation score that indicates a level of effect the first operation has on the first application request;

in response to a second application request accessing the webpage, performing, by the processing resource, a second sequence of operations that includes a second operation;

obtaining, by the processing resource, a second completion time which is a length of time to complete the second application request;

obtaining, by the processing resource, a second response time which is a length of time to complete the second operation triggered by the second application request;

updating, by the processing resource, the determined first correlation score based on the second response time and the second completion time, by determining a first average of the first and second response times, determining a second average of the first and second completion times, and determining a second ratio of the first average over the second average, wherein the second ratio is the updated first correlation score that indicates a level of effect the second operation has on the second application request; and

displaying, by the processing resource, the determined first correlation score and the updated first correlation score on an output device indicating how much the first and second operations affect the completion of the first and second application requests.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first application request is a web page request and the first operation is an XML HTTP request.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the first application request is a user input in a mobile application, and wherein the first response time describes a lag time between the user input and a visible response of the mobile application to the user input.

18. The method of claim 15, comprising:

determining, by the processing resource, that the first application request and the second application request are similar; and

determining, by the processing resource, that the first operation and the second operation are similar.

19. The method of claim 18, comprising:

obtaining, by the processing resource, a third completion time associated with a third application request;

obtaining, by the processing resource, a third response time associated with a third operation triggered by the third application request;

determining, by the processing resource, that the third application request and the first application request are dissimilar;

determining, by the processing resource, a second correlation score describing an effect of the third operation on the third application request by determining a ratio of the third response time over the third completion time.

20. The method of claim 19, comprising displaying the second correlation score on the output device.