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A self-testing autonomic job scheduler

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Alain E. Ramirez,

Barbara Morales,

Tariq M. KingAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '08: Proceedings of the 46th annual ACM Southeast Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1593105.1593186

Published: 28 March 2008 Publication History

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Although researchers have been exchanging ideas on the design and development of autonomic systems, there has been little emphasis on validation. In an effort to stimulate interest in the area of testing these self-managing systems, some researchers have developed lightweight prototypical applications to show the feasibility of dynamically validating runtime changes to autonomic systems. However, in order to reveal some of the greater challenges associated with building dependable autonomic systems, more complex prototype implementations must be developed and studied. In this paper we present implementation details of a self-testable autonomic job scheduling system, which was used as the basis for our investigation on testing autonomic systems.

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A self-testing autonomic job scheduler
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
    2. Validation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Empirical software validation
      2. Process validation
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software reliability

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