Abstract: A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprises defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring the performance of the message handling system, and generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.

Abstract: A software product is tested by first obtaining a performance matrix for the software product, the performance matrix containing the profile results of a plurality of tests on the software product, and an expected result vector for the plurality of tests. A test sequence is then executed for the software product, the sequence comprising selecting a subset of the plurality of tests, running the test subset to obtain a new result vector for the test subset, comparing the new result vector entry with the expected result vector entry for the same test, selecting a test (which may be one of the subset or may be a new test) according to the outcome of the result vector comparison and the performance matrix, and running the selected test under profile.

Abstract: A software product is tested by first obtaining a performance matrix for the software product, the performance matrix containing the profile results of a plurality of tests on the software product, and an expected result vector for the plurality of tests. A test sequence is then executed for the software product, the sequence comprising selecting a subset of the plurality of tests, running the test subset to obtain a new result vector for the test subset, comparing the new result vector entry with the expected result vector entry for the same test, selecting a test (which may be one of the subset or may be a new test) according to the outcome of the result vector comparison and the performance matrix, and running the selected test under profile.

Abstract: A bypass gas turbine has a mixer nozzle at the turbine outlet with a main body, of lobed cross-section to promote mixing of the turbine gas flow and the bypass flow. For a transition at the forward end of the nozzle from the essentially circular boundary between the two flows preceding the turbine outlet to said lobed form, there is an annular connecting ring fairing a channel section with radially inner and outer flanges to which the forward end of the fabricated main body is secured at the peaks and troughs of its lobes. Fairing elements are secured to the flanges to blend with the lobed form of the nozzle body. Because the nozzle body has a lobed form along its entire length it can be constructed as a single skin fabrication while retaining sufficient stiffness to prevent unacceptable deformations from the pressure forces on it under reverse thrust conditions.