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Software upgrades are frequent. Unfortunately, many of the upgrades either fail or misbehave. We argue that many of these failures can be avoided for users of the new version of the software by exploiting the characteristics of the upgrade and feedback fro ...
Elsevier2014
Despite major advances in the engineering of maintainable and robust software over the years, upgrading software remains a primitive and error-prone activity. In this dissertation, we argue that several problems with upgrading software are caused by a poor ...
Although they are helpful in many cases, state-of-the-art bug reporting systems may impose excessive overhead on users, leak private information, or provide little help to the developer in locating the problem. In this paper, we explore a new approach to b ...
Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2011
This thesis introduces a new implementation of the LAIO api, liblaiogen. LAIO stands for Lazy Asynchronous I/O. It is an api for performing asynchronous I/O. Among several benefits, one of the most important is that LAIO is lazy, in the sense that it creat ...
A method and device for predicting faults in a distributed heterogeneous IT system (100), the method comprising: creating a local checkpoint (19) in an explorer node (10) of said system (100), said local checkpoint (19) reflecting the state of said explore ...