Towards a Model Driven Approach to Upgrade Complex Software Systems

Antonio Cicchetti, Davide Di Ruscio, Patrizio Pelliccione, Alfonso Pierantonio, Stefano Zacchiroli

2009

Abstract

Complex software systems are more and more based on the abstraction of package, brought to popularity by Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) distributions. While helpful as an encapsulation layer, packages do not solve all problems of deployment and management of large software collections. In particular upgrades, which often affect several packages at once due to inter-package dependencies, often fail and do not hold good transactional properties. This paper shows how to apply model driven techniques to describe and manage software upgrades of FOSS distributions. It is discussed how to model static and dynamic aspects of package upgrades - the latter being the most challenging aspect to deal with - in order to be able to predict common causes of upgrade failures and undo residual effects of failed or undesired upgrades.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cicchetti A., Di Ruscio D., Pelliccione P., Pierantonio A. and Zacchiroli S. (2009). Towards a Model Driven Approach to Upgrade Complex Software Systems . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-811-98-2, pages 121-133. DOI: 10.5220/0001954801210133

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase09,
author={Antonio Cicchetti and Davide Di Ruscio and Patrizio Pelliccione and Alfonso Pierantonio and Stefano Zacchiroli},
title={Towards a Model Driven Approach to Upgrade Complex Software Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2009},
pages={121-133},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001954801210133},
isbn={978-989-811-98-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Towards a Model Driven Approach to Upgrade Complex Software Systems
SN - 978-989-811-98-2
AU - Cicchetti A.
AU - Di Ruscio D.
AU - Pelliccione P.
AU - Pierantonio A.
AU - Zacchiroli S.
PY - 2009
SP - 121
EP - 133
DO - 10.5220/0001954801210133