A Light-weight Method for Trace Analysis to Support Fault Diagnosis in Concurrent Systems
Andrej Pietschker, Andreas Ulrich, Siemens Ag · 2003
This paper discusses a light-weight approach to the analy-sis of traces of partially ordered events collected during the ex-ecution of a concurrent or distributed system through the use of XML technology. Traces contain information about the creation and termination of threads or objects and the exchange of mes-sages and other types of communication among them. Traces are transformed according to property patterns, visualised and anal-ysed to support fault diagnosis of concurrent systems. We present an approach using XML technology and report the findings of an initial industrial project. Keywords: concurrent systems; dependability of concurrent systems; XML 1