An Exploratory Study of Log Placement Recommendation in an Enterprise System

Logging is a development practice that plays an important role in the operations and monitoring of complex systems. Developers place log statements in the source code and use log data to understand how the system behaves in production. Unfortunately, anticipating where to log during development is challenging. Previous studies show the...

Log-based software monitoring: A systematic mapping study

Modern software development and operations rely on monitoring to understand how systems behave in production. The data provided by application logs and runtime environment are essential to detect and diagnose undesired behavior and improve system reliability. However, despite the rich ecosystem around industry- ready log solutions, monitoring...

Practical detection of CMS plugin conflicts in large plugin sets

Context: Content Management Systems (CMS), such as WordPress, are a very popular category of software for creating web sites and blogs. These systems typically build on top of plugin architectures. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon that the combined activation of multiple plugins in a CMS web site will produce unexpected behavior. Conflict...