A Study of Software Failures and Recovery in the MVS Operating System.

Abstract

This paper describes an analysis of system-detected software errors on the MVS operating system at the Center for Information Technology, at Standford University. The analysis determines the most common error categories and relates them to the program in execution at the time of the error. The severity of the error is measured by evaluating the criticality of the program for continued system operation. The system recovery and error correction features are then analyzed and an estimate of the system fault tolerance to errors of different levels of severity is made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA132681

Entities

People

  • Paola Velardi
  • Ravishankar K. Iyer

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Management
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Recovery
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Software Development
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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