Recommending software upgrades with Mojave》.pdf

The Journal of Systems and Software 96 (2014) 10–23 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect The Journal of Systems and Software j o u r n a l h o me p a ge : w w w. elsev /locate/jss Recommending software upgrades with Mojave Rekha Bachwani a,∗,1, Olivier Crameri b , Ricardo Bianchini c , Willy Zwaenepoel b a Intel Corporation, USA b EPFL, Switzerland c Rutgers University, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Software upgrades are frequent. Unfortunately, many of the upgrades either fail or misbehave. We argue Received 21 April 2013 that many of these failures can be avoided for users of the new version of the software by exploiting the Received in revised form 4 April 2014 characteristics of the upgrade and feedback from the users that have already installed it. To demonstrate Accepted 5 May 2014 that this can be achieved, we build Mojave, the first recommendation system for software upgrades. Available online 24 May 2014 Mojave leverages data from the existing and new users, machine learning, and static and dynamic source analyses. For each new user, Mojave computes the likelihood that the upgrade will fail for him/her. Based Keywords: on this value, Mojave recommends for or against the upgrade. We evaluate Mojave for three real upgrade Software upgrades Manageability problems with the OpenSSH suite, and one synthetic upgrade problem