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Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring

Chalupa M, Mühlböck F, Muroya Lei S, Henzinger TA. 2023. Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, LNCS, vol. 13991, 260–281.

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As the complexity and criticality of software increase every year, so does the importance of run-time monitoring. Third-party monitoring, with limited knowledge of the monitored software, and best-effort monitoring, which keeps pace with the monitored software, are especially valuable, yet underexplored areas of run-time monitoring. Most existing monitoring frameworks do not support their combination because they either require access to the monitored code for instrumentation purposes or the processing of all observed events, or both. We present a middleware framework, VAMOS, for the run-time monitoring of software which is explicitly designed to support third-party and best-effort scenarios. The design goals of VAMOS are (i) efficiency (keeping pace at low overhead), (ii) flexibility (the ability to monitor black-box code through a variety of different event channels, and the connectability to monitors written in different specification languages), and (iii) ease-of-use. To achieve its goals, VAMOS combines aspects of event broker and event recognition systems with aspects of stream processing systems. We implemented a prototype toolchain for VAMOS and conducted experiments including a case study of monitoring for data races. The results indicate that VAMOS enables writing useful yet efficient monitors, is compatible with a variety of event sources and monitor specifications, and simplifies key aspects of setting up a monitoring system from scratch.
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Date Published
2023-04-20
Proceedings Title
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Publisher
Springer Nature
Acknowledgement
This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093. The authors would like to thank the anonymous FASE reviewers for their valuable feedback and suggestions.
Volume
13991
Page
260-281
Conference
FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Conference Location
Paris, France
Conference Date
2023-04-22 – 2023-04-27
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Chalupa M, Mühlböck F, Muroya Lei S, Henzinger TA. Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. In: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. Vol 13991. Springer Nature; 2023:260-281. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15
Chalupa, M., Mühlböck, F., Muroya Lei, S., & Henzinger, T. A. (2023). Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. In Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (Vol. 13991, pp. 260–281). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15
Chalupa, Marek, Fabian Mühlböck, Stefanie Muroya Lei, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Vamos: Middleware for Best-Effort Third-Party Monitoring.” In Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 13991:260–81. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15.
M. Chalupa, F. Mühlböck, S. Muroya Lei, and T. A. Henzinger, “Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring,” in Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13991, pp. 260–281.
Chalupa M, Mühlböck F, Muroya Lei S, Henzinger TA. 2023. Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, LNCS, vol. 13991, 260–281.
Chalupa, Marek, et al. “Vamos: Middleware for Best-Effort Third-Party Monitoring.” Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, vol. 13991, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 260–81, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15.
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