EVOSS: A tool for managing the evolution of free and open source software systems

Author

Ruscio, Davide Di ; Pelliccione, Patrizio ; Pierantonio, Alfonso

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of L´´Aquila, L´´Aquila, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

2-9 June 2012

Firstpage

1415

Lastpage

1418

Abstract

Software systems increasingly require to deal with continuous evolution. In this paper we present the EVOSS tool that has been defined to support the upgrade of free and open source software systems. EVOSS is composed of a simulator and of a fault detector component. The simulator is able to predict failures before they can affect the real system. The fault detector component has been defined to discover inconsistencies in the system configuration model. EVOSS improves the state of the art of current tools, which are able to predict a very limited set of upgrade faults, while they leave a wide range of faults unpredicted.

Keywords

configuration management; public domain software; software fault tolerance; software maintenance; software management; EVOSS tool; evolution management; fault detector component; free and open source software systems; simulator component; system configuration model; upgrade fault prediction; Analytical models; DSL; Fault detection; Linux; Open source software; Tagging; Configuration management and deployment; Model-driven software engineering; Software evolution; Tools and environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1066-6

Electronic_ISBN

0270-5257

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227234

Filename

6227234