Investigation of failure causes in workload-driven reliability testing

SOQUA'07: Fourth International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance - In conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE Joint Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 78-85

  Cotroneo, Domenico ^a   Pietrantuono, Roberto ^a   Mariani, Leonardo ^b   Pastore, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated analysis; JVM monitoring; Log file analysis; Model inference; Workloads execution

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; MODEL INFERENCE; WORKLOADS EXECUTION;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIDDLEWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 41149129789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295074.1295089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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