Predicting upgrade failures using dependency analysis

Upgrades in component based systems can disrupt other components. Being able to predict the possible consequence of an upgrade just by analysing inter-component dependencies can avoid errors and downtime. In this paper we precisely identify in a repository the components p whose upgrades force a lar...

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Published in2011 IEEE 27th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops pp. 145 - 150
Main Authors Abate, P, Di Cosmo, R
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2011
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Approximation methods
Cost accounting
Force
Prediction algorithms
Quality assurance
Software
Software algorithms
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Summary:Upgrades in component based systems can disrupt other components. Being able to predict the possible consequence of an upgrade just by analysing inter-component dependencies can avoid errors and downtime. In this paper we precisely identify in a repository the components p whose upgrades force a large set of others components to be upgraded. We are also able to discriminate whether all the future versions of p have the same impact, or whether there are different classes of future versions that have different impacts. We perform our analysis on Debian, one of the largest FOSS distributions.
ISBN:1424491959
9781424491957
DOI:10.1109/ICDEW.2011.5767626