Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests

First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04) pp. 106-113
Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests
John Dunagan, Microsoft Research
Roussi Roussev, Microsoft Research
Brad Daniels, Microsoft Research
Aaron Johnson, Microsoft Research
Chad Verbowski, Microsoft Research
Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research

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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICAC.2004.61
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Abstract
We describe a new approach to self-managing software patching. We identify visibility into patch impact as the key missing component in automating the current patching process, and we present a suite of components that provides this visibility by constructing black-box persistent-state manifests through self-monitoring of dependencies. Additionally, we use the component suite to measure the actual impact of recent patches on several important commercial applications.
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Citation: John Dunagan, Roussi Roussev, Brad Daniels, Aaron Johnson, Chad Verbowski, Yi-Min Wang, "Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State Manifests," icac, pp. 106-113, First International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004

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