Analysis and diagnosis of SLA violations in a production saas cloud

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 178-188

  Martino, Catello Di ^a   Chen, Daniel ^a   Goel, Geetika ^b   Ganesan, Rajeshwari ^b   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b An Infosys Company   (India)

Author keywords

empirical reliability; fault injection; hazard analysis; log analysis; SaaS; SLA violations

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS); SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

FAULT INJECTION; HAZARD ANALYSIS; LOG ANALYSIS; SAAS; SLA VIOLATIONS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928673968     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2014.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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