Autonomous hot patching for Web-based applications

Author

Huang, Hai ; Tsai, Wei-Tek ; Chen, Yinong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

26-28 July 2005

Firstpage

51

Abstract

Patching technologies are commonly applied to improve the dependability of software after release. This paper proposes an autonomous hot patching (AHP) framework to fully automate the reasoning for the causes of failures, and to patch the binary code of Web-based applications. AHP admits the hardness for rooting out all faults before product release, and autonomously patches problems of application programs. By directly operating on binary code, AHP is universal to virtually all applications. A promising application of AHP is to shortcut the remote maintenance center (RMC) and hence to reduce the turn around time for patches.

Keywords

Internet; binary codes; software fault tolerance; software maintenance; software process improvement; Web-based application; application program; autonomous hot patching; autonomously patches proble; binary code; remote maintenance center; software dependability; Application software; Automation; Binary codes; Computer crashes; Computer science; Data analysis; Failure analysis; Fault diagnosis; Runtime; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2005. COMPSAC 2005. 29th Annual International

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2413-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.51

Filename

1508083