Diagnosis of software failures using computational geometry

  • Authors:
  • Edward Stehle;Kevin Lynch;Maxim Shevertalov;Chris Rorres;Spiros Mancoridis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  • Venue:
  • ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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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