Software aging is a phenomenon plaguing many long-running complex software systems,
which exhibit performance degradation or an increasing failure rate. Several strategies …

Software cybernetics explores the interplay between software and control and is motivated
by the fundamental question whether or not and how software behavior can be controlled. In …

Experience with performance testing of software systems: issues, an approach, and case study
Page 1 Experience with Performance Testing of Software Systems: Issues, an Approach, and …

Source code duplication occurs frequently within large software systems. Pieces of source
code, functions, and data types are often duplicated in part or in whole, for a variety of …

Software failures are now known to be a dominant source of system outages. Several
studies and much anecdotal evidence point to “software aging” as a common phenomenon …

Several recent studies have reported & examined the phenomenon that long-running
software systems show an increasing failure rate and/or a progressive degradation of their …

Recently, the phenomenon of software aging, one in which the state of the software system
degrades with time, has been reported. This phenomenon, which may eventually lead to …

Preventive maintenance of operational software systems, a novel technique for software
fault tolerance, is used specifically to counteract the phenomenon of software" aging" …

A number of recent studies have reported the phenomenon of" software aging",
characterized by progressive performance degradation or a sudden hang/crash of a …

Software systems are known to suffer from outages due to transient errors. Recently, the
phenomenon of" software aging", one in which the state of the software system degrades …