Why do upgrades fail and what can we do about It? toward dependable, online upgrades in enterprise system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5896 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 349-372

  Dumitraş, Tudor ^a   Narasimhan, Priya ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC OPERATION; DEPENDENCY TRACKING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT MODEL; PROCEDURAL ERRORS; RISK OF FAILURE; SOFTWARE DEFECTS; SYSTEM STATE; SYSTEM UPGRADE; INDEPENDENT SOURCES; UPGRADE PROCEDURES;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; MIDDLEWARE; SOFTWARE TESTING; ERRORS;

ERRORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 70549096032     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10445-9_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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