A view of monitoring and tracing techniques and their application to service-based environments

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作者：
Pirzadeh H. [1 ]
Hamou-Lhadj A. [1 ]
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[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
来源：
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies | 2010年 / 2卷
关键词：
Distributed systems; Monitoring and tracing techniques; Service-based applications; Software modernization and comprehension;
D O I：
10.1007/978-3-642-13355-8_4
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Software systems are perhaps today's most complex engineering systems due to the ever evolving technologies they employ. Understanding how these systems are built and why they are built this way calls for advanced tools and techniques that go beyond mere analysis of the source code as it is the case of most existing software comprehension and modernization approaches. In this paper, we argue that the complex behavior embedded in most distributed, multitier, and service-based software systems can benefit significantly from applying dynamic analysis approaches such as the ones based on monitoring and tracing techniques. The main advantage of these techniques is that they constitute a natural fit with the distributed paradigm that is the main mechanism of such applications. In this paper, we present several monitoring and tracing techniques, and compare them based on their advantages and disadvantages. We then discuss how these techniques can be used to understand serviced-based applications, with the ultimate objective being to uncover the key challenges that need to be addressed. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
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