Characterization of operational failures from a business data processing SaaS platform

36th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE Companion 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 195-204

  Di Martino, Catello ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a   Goel, Geetika ^b   Sarkar, Santonu ^b   Ganesan, Rajeshwari ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Failure analysis; Logs; Robustness; SaaS

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COPYRIGHTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS TOOLS; CUSTOMER MANAGEMENTS; LOGS; OPERATIONAL FAILURES; SAAS; SAAS PLATFORMS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; WORKLOAD INTENSITIES;

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS);

EID: 84903636862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2591062.2591172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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