Measuring software aging effects through OS kernel instrumentation

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Matias, Rivalino ^a   Beicker, Ibrahim ^a   Leitão, Breno ^b   Maciel, Paulo R M ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b IBM Brazil   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Measurement; Memory fragmentation; Memory leak; OS instrumentation; Software aging

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; MEASUREMENT;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; KERNEL INSTRUMENTATION; LONG-RUNNING APPLICATIONS; MEMORY FRAGMENTATION; MEMORY LEAKS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SOFTWARE AGING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 79952936898     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WOSAR.2010.5722094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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