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Diagnosis of software failures using computational geometry


Abstract:

Complex software systems have become commonplace in modern organizations and are considered critical to their daily operations. They are expected to run on a diverse set ...Show More

Abstract:

Complex software systems have become commonplace in modern organizations and are considered critical to their daily operations. They are expected to run on a diverse set of platforms while interoperating with a wide variety of other applications. Although there have been advances in the discipline of software engineering, software faults, and malicious attacks still regularly cause system downtime [1]. Downtime of critical applications can create additional work, cause delays, and lead to financial loss [2]. This paper presents a computational geometry technique to tackle the problem of timely failure diagnosis during the execution of a software application. Our approach to failure diagnosis involves collecting a set of software metrics and building a geometric enclosures corresponding to known classes of faults. The geometric enclosures are then used to partition the state space defined by the metrics.
Date of Conference: 06-10 November 2011
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 12 December 2011
ISBN Information:
Print ISSN: 1938-4300
Conference Location: Lawrence, KS, USA

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