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An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System

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Dos Santos, CAR; Matias, R; Trivedi, KS
Published in: Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC
November 1, 2019

A fundamental need for software reliability engineering is to comprehend how software systems fail, which means understanding the dynamics that govern different types of failure manifestation. In this paper, we present an exploratory study on multiple-event failures, looking for systematic patterns of sequences of failures in logs of a commodity operating system. This study is based on real failure data collected from hundreds of computers. The major contribution of this paper is the method proposed to discover patterns of failure sequences and their attributes. The method is generic enough to be applied to any other software system, with minor changes. The empirical findings of this study include 153 different patterns of OS failure sequences discovered, along with statistical analyses of their properties.

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Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC

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2324-7894

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2324-7886

ISBN

9781728163185

Publication Date

November 1, 2019

Volume

2019-November
 

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Dos Santos, C. A. R., Matias, R., & Trivedi, K. S. (2019). An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System. In Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC (Vol. 2019-November). https://doi.org/10.1109/SBESC49506.2019.9046072
Dos Santos, C. A. R., R. Matias, and K. S. Trivedi. “An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System.” In Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC, Vol. 2019-November, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/SBESC49506.2019.9046072.
Dos Santos CAR, Matias R, Trivedi KS. An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System. In: Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC. 2019.
Dos Santos, C. A. R., et al. “An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System.” Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC, vol. 2019-November, 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1109/SBESC49506.2019.9046072.
Dos Santos CAR, Matias R, Trivedi KS. An Empirical Exploratory Analysis of Failure Sequences in a Commodity Operating System. Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC. 2019.

Published In

Brazilian Symposium on Computing System Engineering, SBESC

DOI

EISSN

2324-7894

ISSN

2324-7886

ISBN

9781728163185

Publication Date

November 1, 2019

Volume

2019-November