Assessing and improving the effectiveness of logs for the analysis of software faults

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 457-466

  Cinque, Marcello ^a   Cotroneo, Domenico ^a   Natella, Roberto ^a   Pecchia, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING SYSTEM; LOGGING MECHANISM; OPERATIONAL PHASE; PRIMARY SOURCES; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM OUTAGES;

EID: 77956605580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2010.5544279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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