@inproceedings{43aa826e081d4927b66e2008798e7818,
title = "Statistical log differencing",
abstract = "Recent works have considered the problem of log differencing: given two or more system's execution logs, output a model of their differences. Log differencing has potential applications in software evolution, testing, and security. In this paper we present statistical log differencing, which accounts for frequencies of behaviors found in the logs. We present two algorithms, s2KDiff for differencing two logs, and snKDiff, for differencing of many logs at once, both presenting their results over a single inferred model. A unique aspect of our algorithms is their use of statistical hypothesis testing: we let the engineer control the sensitivity of the analysis by setting the target distance between probabilities and the statistical significance value, and report only (and all) the statistically significant differences. Our evaluation shows the effectiveness of our work in terms of soundness, completeness, and performance. It also demonstrates its effectiveness compared to previous work via a user-study and its potential applications via a case study using real-world logs.",
keywords = "Log analysis, Model inference",
author = "Lingfeng Bao and Nimrod Busany and David Lo and Shahar Maoz",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019 ; Conference date: 10-11-2019 Through 15-11-2019",
year = "2019",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1109/ASE.2019.00084",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Proceedings - 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "851--862",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}