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Automatic software fault diagnosis by exploiting application signatures

US7877642B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Xiangdong Ding · Peoria, US
Hai Huang · White Plains, US
Raymond B. Jennings, III · Ossining, US
Yaoping Roan · White Plains, US
Sambit Sahu · Hawthorne, US
Anees A. Shaikh · Yorktown Heights, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 2008
Grant date	Jan 25, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 15, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/23
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method monitors non-faulty application traces of a computer application with the runtime environment during fault-free activities to create non-faulty runtime signatures for the computer application. Once obtained, the method stores the non-faulty runtime signatures. The method then detects a faulty application trace of the computer application and compares the faulty application trace with the non-faulty runtime signatures by comparing a call graph of the faulty application trace with call graphs of non-faulty application traces of the application signatures to identify differences between the two (e.g., fault attributes). Then the invention outputs the fault attributes to allow the user to identify a fault cause.

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