Jan Eloff, Madeleine Bihina Bella

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Software Failure Investigation (eBook, PDF)

A Near-Miss Analysis Approach

Beschreibung

This book reviews existing operational software failure analysis techniques and proposes near-miss analysis as a novel, and new technique for investigating and preventing software failures. The authors provide details on how near-miss analysis techniques focus on the time-window before the software failure actually unfolds, so as to detect the high-risk conditions that can lead to a major failure. They detail how by alerting system users of an upcoming software failure, the detection of near misses provides an opportunity to collect at runtime failure-related data that is complete and relevant. They present a near-miss management systems (NMS) for detecting upcoming software failures, which can contribute significantly to the improvement of the accuracy of the software failure analysis. A prototype of the NMS is implemented and is discussed in the book. The authors give a practical hands-on approach towards doing software failure investigations by means of near-miss analysis that is ofuse to industry and academia.

• Investigates software failures in an operational environment through near-miss analysis;
• Studies recent and major software failures of significant magnitude;
• Provides a design of an architecture for a Near-Miss Management System.

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 119
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319613345
• Artikelnr.: 52936841