Modeling and analysing operation processes for dependability

  • Authors:
  • Xiwei Xu;Liming Zhu;Jim Li;Len Bass;Qinghua Lu;Min Fu

  • Affiliations:
  • NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia;NICTA Sydney Australia, School of Computing Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DSN '13 Proceedings of the 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Application dependability issues depend on increasingly sophisticated activities during operation time for deployment, upgrade, scaling out/in and reactions to various failures. Traditional approaches to improving application dependability focus on artifact-oriented troubleshooting and improvements. In this paper, we present an approach using process models to represent and analyze operations with considerations of exception handlings and fault-proneness. Our goal is to reduce diagnosis and repair time for application failures that occur during operation activities such as deployment and upgrade.