DISCOVERING FAULT ORIGIN FROM FIELD TRACES

Syed Shariyar Murtaza¹,  Mchelle Gittens²,  Nazim Madhavji¹

UWO1,

IBM2,

smurtaza@csd.uwo.ca

Abstract

Corrective maintenance takes approximately 20 to 36% of software maintenance activities. Identification of origin of defect—fault origin (component, function) -- [in the correc-tive maintenance process], takes approximately 20 to 40% of its (corrective maintenance’s) time. This paper proposes a method to reduce the time spent in detection of fault ori-gin by automatically discovering it from field traces