Runtime repair of software faults using event-driven monitoring

  • Authors:
  • Chris Lewis;Jim Whitehead

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California;University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In software with emergent properties, despite the best efforts to remove faults before execution, there is a high likelihood that faults will occur during runtime. These faults can lead to unacceptable program behavior during execution, even leading to the program terminating unexpectedly. Using a distributed event-driven runtime software-fault monitor to repair faulty states creates an enforceable runtime specification. Using such an architecture can help ensure that emergent systems operate within specification, increasing the reliability of such software.