METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

A method is disclosed for the computer-assisted performance analysis of a data processing system, wherein a program code with a plurality of code parts is running. During the execution of at least one embodiment of the method, one or more parts of the code parts are at least varied once while using a functionality creating a variance in regard to at least one criterion to be evaluated. The data processing system is executed with the varied code part and parts multiple times. A variance of the at least one criterion to be evaluated of the varied code part or parts, or of all code parts of the program code is determined. Finally, a covariance resulting from the variance is subjected to a multivariant analysis.