Memory leak analysis of mission-critical middleware

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1556-1567

  Carrozza, G ^a,c   Cotroneo, D ^a   Natella, R ^a,b   Pecchia, A ^a,b   Russo, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Giugliano in Campania   (Italy)

Author keywords

Memory leak analysis; Mission critical middleware; Software aging

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AGING PHENOMENA; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; MEMORY LEAKS; MISSION CRITICAL; SOFTWARE AGING; STATISTICAL ACCURACY;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 77955413729     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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