Software Engineering

10.4.4 
Resource utilization profile
The resource utilization profile depicts the percentage of a resource that is actu-
ally occupied, as compared with the total time that the component is available for 

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use. Resource availability may have significant impact on the performance of the 
software product during peak load situations. The availability of a resource can be 
assessed to be restrictive if it is overused and impacts transaction processing. These 
results may be used to modify the software functional architecture or to modify the 
computing environment definition to enhance resource availability.