Event Logging in an Industrial Development Process: Practices and Reengineering Challenges

Author

Baccanico, Fabio ; Carrozza, Gabriella ; Cinque, Marcello ; Cotroneo, Domenico ; Pecchia, Antonio ; Savignano, Agostino

Author_Institution

Critiware S.r.l., Naples, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

3-6 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

This paper discusses our preliminary analysis of event logging practices adopted in a large-scale industrial development process at Selex ES, a top-leading Finmeccanica company in electronic and information technologies for defense systems, aerospace, and land security. The analysis aims to support log reengineering activities that are currently conducted at SELEX ES. At time being, some of the issues described in the paper have been fixed by system developers. Analysis encompasses total around 50+ millions lines of log produced by an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. Analysis reveals that event logging is not strictly regulated by company-wide practices, which results into heterogeneous logs across different development teams. We introduce our ongoing effort at developing an automatic support to browse collected logs along with a uniform logging policy supplementing the reengineering process.

Keywords

air traffic control; program diagnostics; ATC system; Selex ES; aerospace; air traffic control system; company-wide practice; defense system; electronic and information technology; event logging; heterogeneous logs; land security; large-scale industrial development process; log reengineering activity; logging policy; reengineering process; system developer; top-leading Finmeccanica company; Data analysis; Data mining; Production; Semantics; Software; Software reliability; Syntactics; Air Traffic Control; Development Process; Event logging; Logging Practices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Naples

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSREW.2014.69

Filename

6983789