The fundamentals of software aging

Author

Grottke, Michael ; Matias, Rivalino ; Trivedi, Kishor S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Stat. & Econ., Univ. of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Since the notion of software aging was introduced thirteen years ago, the interest in this phenomenon has been increasing from both academia and industry. The majority of the research efforts in studying software aging have focused on understanding its effects theoretically and empirically. However, conceptual aspects related to the foundation of this phenomenon have not been covered in the literature. This paper discusses foundational aspects of the software aging phenomenon, introducing new concepts and interconnecting them with the current body of knowledge, in order to compose a base taxonomy for the software aging research. Three real case studies are presented with the purpose of exemplifying many of the concepts discussed.

Keywords

software maintenance; base taxonomy; software aging phenomenon; software rejuvenation; Aging; Application software; Computer industry; Degradation; Econometrics; Hardware; Operating systems; Software systems; Statistics; Taxonomy; aging indicators; case studies; chain of threats; software aging; taxonomy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering Workshops, 2008. ISSRE Wksp 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3416-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3417-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSREW.2008.5355512

Filename

5355512