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A challenging aspect in distributed systems is managing faults, i.e., detecting failures and reacting to them, especially when strict real-time constraints must be met. In this paper, we address the problem of measuring the performance of the fault management mechanism in a complex legacy system with hard real-time requirements. We propose a novel approach to performance evaluation of the fault management mechanism in distributed real-time legacy software systems by developing a performance testing infrastructure, implemented based on the load testing tool Locust. Our use case is a commercial alarm system in productive use that is provided and further developed by the GS company group in Germany. We show in extensive experiments that our approach to performance measurement allows to adequately estimate to what degree the fault management mechanism of a legacy real-time system comply with the strict time constraints. We provide an open-source repository with our measurement infrastructure which allows to reproduce our experiments.
We thank the GS company group for the opportunity to perform our case study with their alarm system. This work was supported by the BMBF project HPC2SE at the University of Muenster.
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Tomak, J., Gorlatch, S. (2021). Measuring Performance of Fault Management in a Legacy System: An Alarm System Study. In: Calzarossa, M.C., Gelenbe, E., Grochla, K., Lent, R., Czachórski, T. (eds) Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. MASCOTS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12527. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68110-4_9
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