NDLI: Characterizing configuration problems in Java EE application servers: An empirical study with GlassFish and JBoss

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Author	Arshad, F.A. Krause, R.J. Bagchi, S.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA (Arshad, F.A.; Krause, R.J.; Bagchi, S.)
Abstract	We present a characterization study on configuration problems for Java EE application servers. Our study analyzes a total of 281 bug-reports in two phases: a longer (Study-1) and a shorter (Study-2) phase, from bug tracking systems of two popular open source servers, GassFish and JBoss. We study configuration problems in four orthogonal dimensions: problem-type, problem-time, problem-manifestation and problem-culprit. A configuration problem, by type, is classified as a paramater, compatibility or a missing-component problem. Problem-time is classified as pre-boot-time, boot-time or run-time. A configuration problem manifestation is either silent or non-silent. Problem-culprit is either the user or the developer of the application server. Our analysis shows that more than one-third of all problems in each server are configuration problems. Among all configuration problems for each server in study-1 at-least 50% of problems are paramater-based and occur at run-time. In study-2, which focuses on specific versions over a shorter time-period, all three problem types parameter, compatibility and missing-component have an almost equal share. Further, on average 89% of configuration problems result in a non-silent manifestation, while 91% of them are due to mistakes by the developer and require code-modification to fix the problem. Finally, we test the robustness to configuration by injecting configuration-bugs at boot-time with SPECjEnterprise2010 application deployed in each server. JBoss performs better than GlassFish with all of the injections giving a non-silent manifestation as opposed to only 65% non-silent manifestations in GlassFish.
Starting Page	198
Ending Page	207
File Size	786621
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479923663
DOI	10.1109/ISSRE.2013.6698919
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-04
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Servers Java Computer bugs Testing Robustness Software systems reliability configuration Java EE
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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