A toolset for automated failure analysis
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Mariani L.,
Pastore F.,
Pezzè M.
Tipo
Contributo in atti di conferenza
Anno
2009
Lingua
Inglese
Abstract
Classic fault localization techniques can automatically provide information about the suspicious code blocks that are likely responsible for observed failures. This information is useful, but not sufficient to completely understand the causes of failing executions, which still require further (time-consuming) investigations to be exactly identified. A useful and comprehensive source of information is frequently given by the set of unexpected events that have been observed during failures. Sequences of unexpected events are usually simple to be interpret, and testers can guess the expected correct sequences of events from the faulty sequences. In this paper, we present a tool that automatically identifies anomalous events that likely caused failures, filters the possible false positives, and presents the resulting data by building views that show chains of cause-effect relations, i.e., views that show when anomalous events are caused by other anomalous events. The use of the technique to investigate a fault in the Tomcat application server is also presented in the paper.
Atti di conferenza
Software Engineering, 2009. ICSE 2009. IEEE 31st International Conference on
Pagina inizio
563
Pagina fine
566
ISBN
978-1-4244-3453-4
Parole chiave
automated failure analysis, Event detection, Failure analysis, Fault diagnosis, fault localization technique, fault tolerant computing, Filters, Information resources, Law, Legal factors, Phase detection, Testing, Tomcat application server, Web server
