Performance Measure

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A Performance Measure identifies the quantity selected to evaluate a characteristic of Performance. It identifies what is measured rather than the process used to obtain a value or the value obtained.

Examples include Latency, throughput, capacity, resource utilization, and another measurable performance characteristic.

quantity used to evaluate a performance characteristic

• DIDO Solutions derived definition
• ISO/IEC 25010:2023, Systems and software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) — Product quality model, specification, measurement, and evaluation of product quality characteristics
• JCGM 200:2012, International vocabulary of metrology, 1.1 Quantity, quantity concepts used by measurement

• A Performance Measure identifies what is measured
• A Performance Measurement is the process used to obtain a value for the Performance Measure
• A Performance Measurement Result contains the value attributed to the Performance Measure and relevant interpretive information
• A Performance Criterion uses one or more Performance Measures to determine whether specified Performance satisfies a Requirement

Latency is a Performance Measure when it is used to evaluate the time behavior of an entity.