Self-healing strategies for component integration faults
Additional information
Authors
Chang H.,
Mariani L.,
Pezzè M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2008
Language
English
Abstract
Software systems increasingly integrate Off-The-Shelf (OTS) components. However, due to the lack of knowledge about the reused OTS components, this integration is fragile and can cause in the field a lot of failures that result in dramatic consequences for users and service providers, e.g. loss of data, functionalities, money and reputation. As a consequence, dynamic and automatic fixing of integration problems in systems that include OTS components can be extremely beneficial to increase their reliability and mitigate these risks. In this paper, we present a technique for enhancing component-based systems with capabilities to self-heal common integration faults by using a predetermined set of healing strategies. The set of faults that can be healed has been determined from the analysis of the most frequent integration bugs experienced by users according to data in bug repositories available on Internet. An implementation based on AOP techniques shows the viability of this technique to heal faults in real case studies.
Conference proceedings
Automated Software Engineering - Workshops, 2008. ASE Workshops 2008. 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Start page number
25
End page number
32
Keywords
AOP techniques, Application software, component integration faults, component-based systems, Computer bugs, Computer crashes, Event detection, healing strategies, Informatics, Internet, Java, Large-scale systems, off-the-shelf components, Runtime library, self-healing strategies, software reliability, software systems
