Technical Publications

(Being updated - partial list - A few pdf versions available from here. For the others, write us, or email to ram@chillarege.com)

• Software Testing Best Practices, Ram Chillarege, IBM Research Report RC 21457, Log 96856, Dated 4/26/99

• ODC for process management, analysis and control, R. Chillarege, Tenth International Software Quality Week, San Francisco, May 1997.
• Generation of an Error Set that emulates software faults based on field data, J. Christmansson and R. Chillarege, 26th International Syposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, pp 304-13, Sendai, Japan June 1996.
• What is Software Failure?, R. Chillarege, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 45, No. 3, Sept 1996.
• Guiding Fault Injection and broadening its scope using ODC Triggers, Ram Chillarege, Invited Paper: Computer Aided Design, Test and Evaluation for Dependability, Beijing, July 1996.
• Book chapter: Orthogonal Defect Classification, Ram Chillarege, Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering, Ed. Michael R. Lyu, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
• Software Triggers and their Characteristics - A case study on field failures from an Operating Systems product, Ram Chillarege and Kathryn Bassin, Fifth IFIP Working Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, September 1995.
• Discovering Relationships Between Service and Customer Satisfaction, Michael Buckley and Ram Chillarege, International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICMS), Opio, France, October 1995.
• Measurement of Failure Rate in Widely Distributed Software R.Chillarege, S.Biyani, J. Rosenthal, 25th International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, June 1995.
• Identifying Risk using ODC Based Growth Models, R. Chillarege, S. Biyani, Proceedings, 5th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE, Monterey, California, pp 282-288, November 1994.
• ODC for Process Measurement, Analysis and Control, Ram Chillarege, Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Software Quality, ASQC Software Division, Oct 3-5, 1994 McLean, VA
• An inference structure for process feedback: technique and implementation, I. Bhandari, B. Ray, MY Wong, D. Choi, A. Watanabe, R. Chillarege, M. Halliday, A. Dooley, J. Chaar, Software Quality Journal, Vol 3, No. 3, p167-189, September 1994,
• Self-testing Software Probe System for Failure Detection and Diagnosis, R. Chillarege Proceedings CASCON, Toronto, CA, October , 1994.
• Experiences in Transferring a Software Process Improvement Methodology to Production Laboratories, M. Halliday, I. Bhandari, J. Chaar, R. Chillarege, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol 26, No 1, July 1994.
• Top Five Challenges Facing the Practice of Fault-tolerance, R. Chillarege, Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume Editors: Michel Banatre, Peter A. Lee, Springer-Verlag Series 774, p3-12, 1994.
• IBM's ES/9000 Model 982's Fault-Tolerant Design for Consolidation, L. Spainhower, T. A. Gregg, R. Chillarege, IEEE Micro, volume 14, number 1, p48-59, Feburary 1994.
• In-process improvement through defect data interpretation, I. Bhandari, M. Halliday, J. Chaar, R. Chillarege, K. Jones, J. Atkinson, C. Lepori-Costello, P. Jasper, E. Tarver, C. Lewis, M. Yonezawa, IBM Systems Journal, V 33, No. 1, p182-214, 1994.
• Software Recreate Problem Estimated to range between 10-20 Percent: A case study on two Operating System Products, R Chillarege, B Ray, A Garrigan, D Ruth, Proceedings, Fourth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE, Denver, Colorado, November 1993.
• A case study of software process improvement during development, I. Bhandari, M. Halliday, E. Tarver, D. Brown, J. Chaar, R. Chillarege, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, V 19, No. 12, p1157-70, December 1993.
• In process evaluation of software inspection and test, J. Chaar, M . Halliday, I. Bhandari, R. Chillarege, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, V 19, No 11, p1055-70, 1993.
• On The Evaluation of Software Inspection and Tests, J. Chaar, M. Halliday, I. Bhandari, R. Chillarege, Proceedings International Test Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1993.
• Evaluating effectiveness of Software Test, J Chaar, M. Halliday, I Bhandari, R Chillarege, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1993.
• Experiences in Transferring a Software Process Improvement Methodology to Production Labs, M. Halliday, I. Bhandari, J. Chaar, R. Chillarege, Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venice, Italy, October, 1993.
• Orthogonal Defect Classification: A Concept for In-process Measurements, R. Chillarege, I. Bhandari, J. Chaar, M. Halliday, D. Moebus, B. Ray, M. Wong, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, November 1992.
• Reliability growth for typed defects, B. Ray, I. Bhandari, R. Chillarege, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, p327-336, 1992.
• Design for Fault-tolerance in System ES/9000 Model 900, L. Spainhover, J. Isenberg, R. Chillarege, J. Birding, 22nd International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, Boston MA, p38-47, July 1992.
• A comparison of Software Defects in Database Management Systems and Operating Systems, Mark Sullivan and Ram Chillarege, Proceedings International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, Boston MA, p475-484, July 1992.
• Software Defects and their Impact on System Availability - A study of Field Failures in Operating Systems, Mark Sullivan and Ram Chillarege, Digest 21st International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, p2-9, June 1991.
• Defect Type and its Impact on the Growth Curve, Ram Chillarege, Wei-lun Kao and Richard G. Condit, Proceedings 13th International Conference on Software Engineering, Austin TX, p246-255, May 1991.
• Failure Characterization of the NFS Using Fault-Injection, Murthy Devarakonda, Kumar Goswami and Ram Chillarege, IBM Research Division Technical Report, RC 16342, Dec 1990.
• Experimental Evaluation of Computer Systems Reliability, Ram Chillarege and Daniel Siewiorek, Guest Editor's Prolog, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 39, No. 4, pp.403-408, October 1990.
• Understanding Large Systems Failure - A Fault Injection Experiment, Ram Chillarege and Nicholas S. Bowen, Digest 19th International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, June 1989.
• An Experimental Study of Memory Fault Latency, Ram Chillarege and Ravi K. Iyer, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 38, No. 6, 1989.
• Measurement-Based Analysis of Error Latency, Ram Chillarege and Ravi K. Iyer, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 36, No. 5, May 1987.
• Fault Latency in the Memory - An Experimental study on VAX 11/780, Ram Chillarege and Ravi K. Iyer, Digest 16th International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, June 1986.
• The Effect of System Workload on Error Latency: An Experimental Study, Ram Chillarege and Ravi K. Iyer, ACM Sigmetrics Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Austin TX, August 1985.
• US Patent 5,193,178 "Self Testing Probe System to Reveal Software Errors", R. Chillarege and P. Rosenfeld, Filed Oct 31, 1990, 14 Claims.
• Control Block Validation for Failure Avoidance, N. S. Bowen and R. Chillarege, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Vol 32 No. 8A, Jan 1990.
• Failure Prevention and Error Repair for Overlays on Code and Data, N. S. Bowen and R. Chillarege, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Vol 32 No. 8A, Jan 1990.