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Modeling and analysis of software aging and software failure

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Guozhi XuAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 80, Issue 4

Pages 590 - 595

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.06.029

Published: 01 April 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Many studies reported that system suffered from outages more due to software faults than hardware faults. Recently, the phenomenon of "software aging", which was caused by aging-related faults, is observed in many software systems. Software aging, characterized by progressive performance degradation, is mainly caused by exhaustion of the operating system resources, such as memory leaking, unreleased-file locks, data corruption, etc. This paper mainly focuses on the modeling and analysis of software aging and software failure. A stochastic time series decomposition algorithm based on robust locally weighted regression (Loess) is presented to separate the exhaustion of system resource from the resource usage, from which aging trend is estimated. Then the model of software aging and software failure process is constructed. Experiments on a practical server system verify the effectiveness of the algorithm presented in this paper, and the two-stage failure process is also confirmed for the first time in the history of research on software aging. The conclusions drawn from this paper will greatly benefit the application of software rejuvenation technique, that is, it makes it easy to determine when to perform software rejuvenation, which is a key issue in implementation of software rejuvenation. The results for the server system employing different rejuvenation policies show that software performance can be effectively improved.

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Shao QGou XHuang TYang S(2019)Anti-aging analysis for software reliability design modes in the context of single-event effectSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-019-09464-328:1(221-243)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11219-019-09464-3
Patel JDas O(2007)A new model for evaluating performability under the effects of software aging and rejuvenationProceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications10.5555/1647636.1647642(25-30)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1647636.1647642

Index Terms

Modeling and analysis of software aging and software failure
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
      2. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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Journal of Systems and Software Volume 80, Issue 4

April, 2007

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Shao QGou XHuang TYang S(2019)Anti-aging analysis for software reliability design modes in the context of single-event effectSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-019-09464-328:1(221-243)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11219-019-09464-3
Patel JDas O(2007)A new model for evaluating performability under the effects of software aging and rejuvenationProceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications10.5555/1647636.1647642(25-30)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1647636.1647642

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