Recent years have seen significant advances in dynamic software updating (DSU) systems, which allow programs to be patched on the fly. However, a significant challenge remains: Ho...
Christopher M. Hayden, Eric A. Hardisty, Michael W...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
Distributed parallel applications often run for hours or even days before arriving to a result. In the case of such long-running programs, the initial requirements could change aft...
Dong Kwan Kim, Myoungkyu Song, Eli Tilevich, Calvi...
We present an algorithm for automatic testing of distributed programs, such as Unix processes with inter-process communication and Web services. Specifically, we assume that a prog...
—Dynamic reconfiguration – the ability to hot swap a component, or to introduce a new component into the system – is essential to supporting evolutionary change in long-live ...