Paper Info
Title
Industry practices and event logging: assessment of a critical software development process
Abstract
Practitioners widely recognize the importance of event logging for a variety of tasks, such as accounting, system measurements and troubleshooting. Nevertheless, in spite of the importance of the tasks based on the logs collected under real workload conditions, event logging lacks systematic design and implementation practices. The implementation of the logging mechanism strongly relies on the human expertise. This paper proposes a measurement study of event logging practices in a critical industrial domain. We assess a software development process at Selex ES, a leading Finmeccanica company in electronic and information solutions for critical systems. Our study combines source code analysis, inspection of around 2.3 millions log entries, and direct feedback from the development team to gain process-wide insights ranging from programming practices, logging objectives and issues impacting log analysis. The findings of our study were extremely valuable to prioritize event logging reengineering tasks at Selex ES.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICSE.2015.145
ICSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Source code analysis, event logging, development process, coding practices, industry domain
Troubleshooting,Systems engineering,Workload,Computer science,Source code,Real-time computing,Software development process,Direct feedback,Business process reengineering,Logging
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
0270-5257
978-1-4799-1934-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.83
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Pecchia114318.60
Marcello Cinque228633.58
Gabriella Carrozza38411.39
Domenico Cotroneo497479.93