Software Diagnostics Institute

Software diagnostics is used whenever there is a fault that triggers some kind of an artefact such as a memory dump or a software trace. It is also used proactively in software and network monitoring. We combine all these uses with our pattern-oriented approach to anticipate faults before their occurrence:

Such preventive software diagnostics consists from 4 interrelated parts:

• General software structure and behaviour pattern catalogues
• Domain, vendor and product specific problem catalogues
• Live monitoring
• Pre-mortem analysis

Pre-mortem here means preventive memory dump analysis. It is similar to post-mortem analysis but artefacts are collected and analysed proactively before any actual problem. In some sense pre-mortem analysis is a part of live monitoring but we confine the latter to software trace and log analysis.